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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech
Engineer’s Codex is a publication about real-world software engineering.
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Coinbase did layoffs recently. They’re cutting a large percent of their employees, and along with the announcement, they mentioned wanting their...
What every dev should know about AI sandboxes
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Sandboxes have been around for a while, but AI has made them one of the most important primitives of the “agent era.”
Sandboxing isn’t new. Br...
Diving into Claude Code's Source Code Leak
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On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped a .map sourcemap file inside a Claude Code npm update. In minutes, this was found and was go...
Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now
Engineer’s Codex is a newsletter about real-world engineering. I know I haven’t posted in a while! The last issue was How to Write “Garbage Code” (by Linus Torvalds).
Claude Code and other coding agents this year have taken a massiv...
How to Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)
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Recently, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux, berated a Meta engineer on a PR they ma...
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