A look at the venerable Unix pattern of fork() followed by exec() to launch processes, why it fits poorly with modern multithreaded programs (copied locks, surprise file descriptors, memory bloat), and the newer primitives the kernel community is weighing as cleaner replacements.
A working engineer's candid account of watching coding agents hollow out the parts of the job he valued — the deep problem-solving, the craft — and trying to figure out what a career built on that looks like now.
OpenAI is reportedly planning to rebuild ChatGPT into an all-in-one 'superapp' — folding in commerce, agents, and third-party services — as it positions itself ahead of a public listing, according to the FT.
Tyler Cowen weighs the evidence on whether remote work harms mental health and finds it murkier and more individual than either camp tends to claim — the effect depends heavily on who you are and how you structure the day.