How we optimized Dash's relevance judge with DSPy
We used DSPy to turn prompt engineering for our relevance judge into a measurable, automated optimization loop, improving task performance, cost, and how reliably it works in production.
Principles of Mechanical Sympathy
Modern hardware is remarkably fast, but software often fails to leverage it. Mechanical sympathy - a concept borrowed from racing and popularized in software by Martin Thompson - is the practice of creating software that is sympathetic to its underlying hardware. This practice can be distilled into a set of everyday principles: Predictable memory access, awareness of cache lines, the single-writer
Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Designing for agentic AI requires attention to both the system’s behavior and the transparency of its actions. Between the black box and the data dump lies a more thoughtful approach. Victor Yocco explores how to map decision points and reveal the right moments to build trust through clarity, not noise.
How agents, digital wallets, and trust are rewriting checkout
We analyzed checkout activity across more than 20K businesses, surveyed shoppers and ecommerce leaders, and gathered insights from businesses on the Stripe network to understand what’s changing in online conversion.
How we built Organizations to help enterprises manage Cloudflare at scale
Cloudflare Organizations is now in public beta, introducing a new management layer for enterprise customers with multiple accounts. Learn how we consolidated our authorization systems to enable org-wide management.
New CSS Multi-Column Layout Features in Chrome
Chrome 145 introduces the column-height and column-wrap CSS multi-column layout properties, enabling us to wrap the additional content into a new row.
GitHub Copilot CLI combines model families for a second opinion
Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI.
How Meta Used AI to Map Tribal Knowledge in Large-Scale Data Pipelines
AI coding assistants are powerful but only as good as their understanding of your codebase. When we pointed AI agents at one of Meta’s large-scale data processing pipelines – spanning four repositories, three languages, and over 4,100 files – we quickly found that they weren’t making useful edits quickly enough. We fixed this by building […]
The uphill climb of making diff lines performant
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
Why we're rethinking cache for the AI era
The explosion of AI-bot traffic, representing over 10 billion requests per week, has opened up new challenges and opportunities for cache design. We look at some of the ways AI bot traffic differs from humans, how this impacts CDN cache, and some early ideas for how Cloudflare is designing systems to improve both the AI and human experience.
Build with more context and more control in Figma Make
Starting today, Make kits and Make attachments bring context into Figma Make, so prototypes start from real components, data, and constraints.
Harness engineering for coding agent users
To let coding agents work with less supervision, we need ways to increase our confidence in their result. As software engineers, we have a natural trust barrier with AI-generated code - LLMs are non-deterministic, they don't know our context, and they don't really understand the code, they think in tokens. This article explores a mental model that brings together emerging concepts from context and
KernelEvolve: How Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent Optimizes AI Infrastructure
This is the second post in the Ranking Engineer Agent blog series exploring the autonomous AI capabilities accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking innovation. The previous post introduced Ranking Engineer Agent’s ML exploration capability, which autonomously designs, executes, and analyzes ranking model experiments. This post covers how to optimize the low-level infrastructure that makes those models run
Insights from Shoptalk 2026: How agents are changing retail
Retailers know search and discovery have already shifted. What comes next is less settled. From embedded checkout to emerging third-party surfaces, here’s how ecommerce and AI leaders are integrating agentic commerce.
Optimizing Vercel Sandbox snapshots
Vercel Sandbox snapshots let you save and restore your entire filesystem. Learn how we optimized snapshot restores with parallel downloads, streaming decompression, and local NVMe caching.
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.
Our ongoing commitment to privacy for the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver
Eight years ago, we launched 1.1.1.1 to build a faster, more private Internet. Today, we’re sharing the results of our latest independent examination. The result: our privacy protections are working exactly as promised.
Front-End Fools: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time
These are the historical pranks I consider the top 10 most noteworthy, rather than the “best.” You’ll see that some of them crossed the line and/or backfired.
Reducing our monorepo size to improve developer velocity
Monorepos will continue to grow as products evolve, but growth doesn’t have to mean friction.
Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, our immutable blob store
By turning compaction into a layered, adaptive pipeline and strengthening our monitoring and controls, we made Magic Pocket more resilient to workload changes.
6 designs that reimagine how we interact with software
This year's Make-a-thon winners offer new ways to connect, reflect, and play through software.
Securing the open source supply chain across GitHub
Recent attacks on open source focus on exfiltrating secrets; here are the prevention steps you can take today, plus a look at the security capabilities GitHub is working on.
Run multiple agents at once with /fleet in Copilot CLI
/fleet lets Copilot CLI dispatch multiple agents in parallel. Learn how to write prompts that split work across files, declare dependencies, and avoid common pitfalls.
A Practical Guide To Design Principles — Smashing Magazine
Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
