Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

March 8, 2025

The Staff+ Performance Cliff

It's indeed not easy to go from individual contributions, to team level leadership, to organisation level leadership. Many things need to be learned or relearned at each step.

Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs

I like this kind of research as it also says something about our own cognition. The results comparing two models and improving them are fascinating.

How to Write Useful Commit Messages
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Might be going a bit far if you use everything listed here. That said, it gives lots of good ideas so you might want to decide on what you should adopt on your project.

What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained
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Here we go for a brand new marketing stunt from OpenAI. You can also tell the pressure is rising since all of this is still operating at a massive loss.

Why do I find Rust inadequate for codecs?

Interesting reasons to let go of Rust, some spaces indeed can have a safety vs performance tradeoff which would justify using good old C.

Standards for ANSI escape codes

A nice glimpse into the maze of the escape codes on the terminal.

Microsoft is reportedly plotting a future without OpenAI
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Are we surprised? Not really... This kind of struggle was an obvious outcome from the heavy dependencies between both companies.