If you've tried to follow any AI coding discussion in the last six months, you've probably felt like everyone suddenly started speaking a dialect you never signed up to learn. "Vibe coding." "Agentic workflows." "Context windows." "Prompt engineering." The jargon is multiplying faster than JavaScript frameworks, and that's saying something. Matt Pocock — who you might know from his TypeScript educ
There's a dangerous assumption most developers bring into Compact: "It's a privacy-first chain. My data is private unless I explicitly expose it." This is backwards. And it's where the serious mistakes happen. Compact doesn't give you automatic privacy. It gives you a hard boundary between two worlds, and a compiler that enforces it. World Where Who sees it Public On-chain, every network no
GitHub Copilot just got a lot more complicated — and not in a good way. If you tried to sign up for Copilot Pro recently and hit a wall, that's not a bug. GitHub quietly paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans starting in late April 2026. No end date announced. No workaround offered. Just a message and a door that won't open. That alone would be worth covering. But they made t
## INTRODUCTION Every blockchain application that handles value needs to answer the same question: how do you track who owns what? There are two dominant approaches, and choosing between them shapes your entire contract architecture. Contract-state accounting behaves like a bank ledger. A single smart contract holds a balance map, and transactions update entries in place. The UTXO model behaves li
Anthropic now ships at least three different memory models inside the Claude product family, and they don't behave the same way. Claude.ai has a chat memory feature for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users that summarizes prior conversations and injects that summary into new chats. Claude Code has CLAUDE.md files plus a separate "auto memory" directory the model writes to itself, both loaded at se