Switched from GitHub Actions and GitHub hosted runners to using Buildkite and hosted AWS runners, and it's so good. Our feedback time on pull-requests went from 8+ minutes to less than 2, and the Buildkite UI is excellent.
I was inspired by this article: www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...
Codex finally supports hooks! This is pretty cool because we'll be able to support this much better in our schwarm (engineering.getdexter.co/2026/02/23/h...)
You can find more in this Codex PR: github.com/openai/codex...
A technique I found useful when working with LLMs and database columns with UUID primary keys is to use an ID mapper to reduce the amount of tokens uses and enable easy testing using VCR.
engineering.getdexter.co/2026/03/10/s...
Parfaite minute de remise en contexte.
General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really?
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
