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article Issue #241
Using AI to GSD (Get Stuff Done)

How confident are you that the generated code your agent wrote will work in production? This week's issue helps us figure out how to boost …

November 09, 2026
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article Issue #240
The Lambda We’ve Been Waiting For

You know all those things you wish Lambda did? It does that now.

November 02, 2026
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article Issue #239
Pick a Lambda, any Lambda

Lambda has five flavors now, and the word "serverless" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

October 26, 2026
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article Issue #238
Here comes the Doom (but in a good way)

Turns out you can run Doom on a Lambda Web Function... who knew?!

October 19, 2026
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article Issue #237
LGTM. Ship it.

If you blindly hit "approve" on Claude Code over and over, this one's for you.

October 12, 2026
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article Issue #236
Decision models. So hot right now.

Have you tried Jev yet? All signs are pointing to "now is the time" to get cheaper, faster AI workflows.

October 05, 2026
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article Issue #235
Build your own (or not)

It's getting increasingly easier to build something yourself instead of buying it. But there's a few things you need to look out for before …

September 28, 2026
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article Issue #234
Rethink everything you know about AI

We had some fantastic success stories showing us how people are excelling in all aspects of the AI-led tech industry we've found ourselves …

September 21, 2026
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article Issue #233
Doubling Uber Eat’s search speed

We go heavy on engineering this week

September 14, 2026
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