Smaller models with smarter architectures and low-bit quantized models are two venues for more efficient use. I'm really curious how far they'll go. This article focuses on low-bit quantized models and the prospects are interesting.

With some tuning SQLite can go a long way, even for server type workloads. There are still a few caveats but in some case this can reduce complexity and cost quite a bit.

Lots of good advices of course. It goes a long way to improve the quality of the project and the ease to on-board people. This is quite some initial work though.

Or why a clean commit history can help quite a lot to find how and why a bug was introduced. This shows a few nice tricks around git log to speed up the process.