Peeking into VALORANT's Netcode

Blaine Cook

Hi! I'm Blaine, a software programmer living in the Slocan Valley who works on decentralized technologies (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability">this</a> kind, not that kind) in order to give communities the autonomy to self-determine in online spaces.

What Makes Apex Tick: A Developer Deep Dive into Servers and Netcode

Apex Legends lead engineer Ricklesauceur explores common online issues that players face, their causes, and our efforts to address them.

The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web

Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and other Internet pioneers issue a challenge on a day that just might go down in tech history

Brandon Stewart on Twitter / X

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses. pic.twitter.com/5LdFvzbFaf— Brandon Stewart (@b_m_stewart) May 13, 2026

Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants

Tech's market concentration—summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into "a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four"—has aroused concern from regulators around the world.

Computer-Use Agents SOTA Challenge: Hack the North + Global Online | Cua Blog

Two-track competition for SOTA Computer-Use Agents: on-site Hack the North participants compete via OSWorld benchmark, while global participants build with Cua + Ollama.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

AI Coding Agents: Adoption Trends - The JetBrains Blog

How many developers use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, JetBrains Junie, and others)? Evidence from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026.

Paul Iusztin on Twitter / X

Using LLM wikis for agentic coding is pure gold. It's so powerful it feels like cheating. Here is how I used it to develop a coding harness from scratch:1. I ingested multiple coding harnesses repositories into the LLM wiki (e.g., opencode, pi, hermes, etc.) pic.twitter.com/7WE7NI9tnN— Paul Iusztin (@pauliusztin_) June 29, 2026

Philipp Schmid on Twitter / X

Should we build the web for agents, not agents for the web? 🤔 A new paper argues that current research is misguidedly focuses on improving LLMs leading to significant problems with efficiency, reliability, and safety, proposing a new "Agentic Web Interface" (AWI) that sits on… pic.twitter.com/I90k6kdYdk— Philipp Schmid (@_philschmid) June 14, 2025

Introducing Delta

From the Zed Blog: A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.

Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code

We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.

Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X

LLM Knowledge BasesSomething I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating…— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) April 2, 2026

Garry Tan on Twitter / X

Wow. Incredible amount of SOTA training data now just available to China thanks to @mercor_ai leak. Every major lab. Billions and billions of value and a major national security issue. https://t.co/BGMemZjPvk— Garry Tan (@garrytan) April 2, 2026