GLM 5.2 Just Became the Best Open-Weights Model — Here's What That Means
Z.AI's GLM 5.2 (744B MoE, 1M context, MIT license) tops open-weights benchmarks and runs coding agents at frontier level. Full breakdown.
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How I Dissected 54 Design Systems and Transplanted Linear.app DNA Into My Hugo Blog in One Day
I told my AI agent my blog looked like garbage. It loaded 54 real-world design systems, ran a comparative analysis, and rebuilt the entire theme with Linear.app's design tokens. Swapped between three AI models mid-task and learned which one handles structure vs. polish. 1,500 lines of CSS, 3 commits, one afternoon.
The quiet consolidation in Korean dev tooling
Three acquisitions in twelve months. Korean dev tools are no longer a fragmented market — they're a small oligopoly, and the API surfaces are starting to look the same.
Stop reaching for a state library
Modern JavaScript runtimes have had structured state primitives for years. You probably don't need a 40KB dependency for what your app actually does.
The Indonesian developer scene is having its Linux moment
Five years of quiet, distributed, community-driven tooling work. The results are starting to show up in the kinds of projects that get adopted outside the country.
A pragmatic review of Hermes Agent after six months
It's a personal AI agent. It's not a product for end-users. With that frame, it works better than anything else I've tried. Here's what works, what doesn't, and when I'd reach for something else.
Why I'm no longer worried about AI replacing senior developers
Two years of watching the field from Jakarta. The replacement threat was always a junior-developer story. The senior-developer story is the opposite of what most people are writing about.