Teaching Values to Machines
Something remarkable happened in the final days of November 2025. A researcher named Richard Weiss, while probing Claude 4.5 Opus for its system prompt, stum...
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Teaching the Machine to Ask Itself Better Questions
Watch a developer struggle with an AI coding assistant and you’ll see the same pattern. They write a prompt. The model misunderstands. They add more detail. ...
TikTok’s payment service struggled at 100,000 queries per second until engineers rewrote critical APIs in Rust
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The Deliberate Constraints of MCP Elicitation
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Data Architecture at the Network Edge
Cloudflare’s Data Platform announcement deserves attention not for what it builds, but for what it reveals about the economics of distributed analytics. By c...