<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Agamvir Bal</title><description>Writing and links from a software engineering student at QUT.</description><link>https://agamvir.com.au/</link><item><title>Link: Amazon&apos;s anti-tokenmaxxing memo</title><link>https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/amazon-ai-coding-tokenmaxxing.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/amazon-ai-coding-tokenmaxxing.html</guid><description>https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/amazon-ai-coding-tokenmaxxing.html</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Content collections | Docs</title><link>https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/</guid><description>https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Here be monsters: what do you still need to know when agents do the work?</title><link>https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work</guid><description>https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Home - OpenMP</title><link>https://www.openmp.org/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.openmp.org/</guid><description>https://www.openmp.org/</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Hunger beats tenure: advice for junior engineers</title><link>https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/</guid><description>https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amazon&apos;s anti-tokenmaxxing memo is a measurement problem, not an AI one</title><link>https://agamvir.com.au/posts/tokenmaxxing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agamvir.com.au/posts/tokenmaxxing/</guid><description>An internal memo tells engineers to be pickier about AI. The real story is what happens when you pick the wrong metric.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Discord is making its public communities more searchable</title><link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/discord-is-making-its-public-communities-more-searchable-and-people-have-concerns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/discord-is-making-its-public-communities-more-searchable-and-people-have-concerns/</guid><description>https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/discord-is-making-its-public-communities-more-searchable-and-people-have-concerns/</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Your job can survive AI, your salary might not</title><link>https://newsletter.drorpoleg.com/p/ai-doesnt-have-to-replace-you-to</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://newsletter.drorpoleg.com/p/ai-doesnt-have-to-replace-you-to</guid><description>https://newsletter.drorpoleg.com/p/ai-doesnt-have-to-replace-you-to</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The gigawatt question, and why datacentre maths is not software maths</title><link>https://agamvir.com.au/posts/gigawatt-question/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agamvir.com.au/posts/gigawatt-question/</guid><description>A simulation says a 1GW AI datacentre loses money in 98% of outcomes. The interesting part is which assumption does the damage.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Sunlight at night: lighting Earth from space draws criticism</title><link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites</guid><description>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: The gigawatt question</title><link>https://jamesthomason.com/the-gigawatt-question/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jamesthomason.com/the-gigawatt-question/</guid><description>https://jamesthomason.com/the-gigawatt-question/</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One million lines of firmware, or three hundred of assembly</title><link>https://agamvir.com.au/posts/smaller-trusted-base/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agamvir.com.au/posts/smaller-trusted-base/</guid><description>A UEFI flaw hits a huge number of servers in the same week someone argues for replacing firmware with 300 lines. The two stories are related.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Less is more: from 1M lines of firmware to 300 of assembly</title><link>https://tinfoil.sh/blog/2026-10-25-less-is-more</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tinfoil.sh/blog/2026-10-25-less-is-more</guid><description>https://tinfoil.sh/blog/2026-10-25-less-is-more</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Some memories of early Anthropic</title><link>https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/some-memories-of-early-anthropic</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/some-memories-of-early-anthropic</guid><description>https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/some-memories-of-early-anthropic</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Hallmark: a design skill for AI coding tools</title><link>https://github.com/Nutlope/hallmark</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://github.com/Nutlope/hallmark</guid><description>https://github.com/Nutlope/hallmark</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Vibe genes: natural language comes to protein design software</title><link>https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/vibe-genes-naturalish-language-comes-to-protein-genome-design-software/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/vibe-genes-naturalish-language-comes-to-protein-genome-design-software/</guid><description>https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/vibe-genes-naturalish-language-comes-to-protein-genome-design-software/</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Link: Apple refreshes the iMac and entry MacBook Pro with the M6</title><link>https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/apple-refreshes-the-imac-entry-level-macbook-pro-with-the-m6-chip/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/apple-refreshes-the-imac-entry-level-macbook-pro-with-the-m6-chip/</guid><description>https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/apple-refreshes-the-imac-entry-level-macbook-pro-with-the-m6-chip/</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Starting a public notebook</title><link>https://agamvir.com.au/posts/hello/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agamvir.com.au/posts/hello/</guid><description>Why I am writing this in public instead of keeping it in a folder on my laptop.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>