<![CDATA[Stories by The Stateless Samurai on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*CAXyqzSqAEQQqvMUvxflng.jpeg Stories by The Stateless Samurai on Medium https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:32:40 GMT <![CDATA[GitHub Copied Almost Every Repository to Azure.]]>

Cloud capacity has limits when independent work must wait its turn. GitHub’s migration makes that uncomfortable tradeoff visible.

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/github-azure-migration-25ms-bottleneck-48de58d7cae8?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/48de58d7cae8 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:31:01 GMT 2026-10-29T13:31:01.718Z <![CDATA[We Made Code Nearly Free. Nobody Asked Who Would Maintain It.]]>

AI can generate a feature in minutes. The real cost appears when someone has to debug it, change it, and own it in production.

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/ai-generated-code-maintenance-379ff3336def?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/379ff3336def Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:56:01 GMT 2026-10-13T13:56:01.702Z <![CDATA[Our Team Used the Same Redis Eviction Policy for Three Years.]]>

For three years our Redis cluster ran with allkeys-lru as its eviction policy, and in all that time nobody asked whether it was the right…

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/redis-allkeys-lru-noeviction-idempotency-keys-fc4079d45b12?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/fc4079d45b12 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:46:01 GMT 2026-10-13T03:46:01.492Z <![CDATA[OpenAI Says the AI Deserves the Credit. Mathematicians Are Left With the Responsibility.]]>

A machine can generate the argument. It still cannot stand behind it.

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/openai-astra-10-math-breakthroughs-ai-authorship-b4eb71e5731a?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/b4eb71e5731a Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:31:01 GMT 2026-08-04T12:31:01.812Z <![CDATA[OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not Selling Intelligence. They Are Selling Someone to Blame.]]>

Open Models Are Making Intelligence Cheaper. The Frontier Labs’ Last Moat May Be the Signature at the Bottom of the Contract.

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]]> https://aiadvances.org/openai-anthropic-enterprise-ai-accountability-7c93d6fdb150?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/7c93d6fdb150 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:43:20 GMT 2026-08-03T10:43:20.833Z <![CDATA[MCP Is Just RPC With Better Marketing: A Backend Engineer Reads the Spec]]>

I want to say upfront that I am annoyed while writing this, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Every few years backend engineering…

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]]> https://aiadvances.org/mcp-is-just-rpc-with-better-marketing-4fa6b59fd1e3?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/4fa6b59fd1e3 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:27:47 GMT 2026-08-01T00:27:47.002Z <![CDATA[AI Made Writing Code Almost Free. Understanding It Is Now the Most Expensive Part.]]>

I have spent enough time working on backend services to learn something that took me years to properly understand: clean code can still be…

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/ai-generated-code-technical-debt-e0a4cf496bea?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/e0a4cf496bea Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:31:01 GMT 2026-07-18T13:31:01.654Z <![CDATA[OpenAI Merged Codex Into ChatGPT. The IDE Is No Longer the Center of Software Development.]]>

For most of my career, software development had a physical center.

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/openai-codex-chatgpt-future-of-ides-e5775fd3c15e?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/e5775fd3c15e Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:31:02 GMT 2026-07-17T12:31:02.078Z <![CDATA[Rust Promised Memory Safety. LLVM Just Reminded Everyone Who Is Really in Charge.]]>

The borrow checker approved the code. LLVM changed its meaning anyway, exposing the hidden dependency beneath Rust’s strongest guarantee.

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/rust-memory-safety-llvm-miscompilation-39ae3dd1d226?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/39ae3dd1d226 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:18:53 GMT 2026-07-16T19:18:53.480Z <![CDATA[Git Is Not Hard. We Have Been Teaching It Backwards for 20 Years.]]>

Developers Do Not Fear Git Because It Is Complicated. They Fear It Because Nobody Showed Them What It Is Actually Doing.

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]]> https://medium.com/@samurai.stateless.coder/why-git-is-hard-to-learn-and-how-to-teach-it-3dc665b5b342?source=rss-0d5aa6aba597------2 https://medium.com/p/3dc665b5b342 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:31:00 GMT 2026-07-15T12:31:00.894Z