Miguel Cardoso

Every few months, someone declares RAG is dead.Usually right after a new model launches with a larger context window.128k.1M.“Why retrieve anything? Just dump everything into the prompt.”And people act like information retrieval is now obsolete.It isn’t.And the argument gets weaker the more you

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"The core philosophy of compound engineering is that each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier—not harder.Most codebases get harder to work with over time because each feature you add injects more complexity. After 10 years, teams spend more time fighting their system than

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Wanting to building is collapsing very fast

→ Open • Substack · open.substack.com

"Context Is the New WorkloadEvery AI system runs on context.Prompts, memory, retrieved documents, intermediate reasoning steps, tool outputs, and prior conversations all get bundled together into a single execution surface. That bundle is the real workload.Yet most systems still treat context as an

Read more → @jeremydaly • Medium · medium.com

As someone that was part of -bigger than it should be- frontend codebases, this is a very nice and tbh simple take on micro frontends. Cloudflare primitives are amazing.

→ The Cloudflare Blog · cfl.re

Don't shy away for multi-modality. Nice read, might try this guys.

→ superlinked.com

Everyone obsesses over speed, output, and frameworks. Roadmaps, sprints, OKRs, KPIs. Execution, execution, execution. I’m no exception: if I’m not moving, I start stressing. But moving for the sake of moving doesn’t create progress. Speed alone isn’t leverage... it can cause drift, or worse… a

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→ a16z · youtube.com

No, it did not.

→ llamaindex.ai

"You can perform 200ms search over 40 million texts using just a CPU server, 8GB of RAM, and 40GB of disk space. The trick: Binary search with int8 rescoring."

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Compound.

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"By pulling on the sage advice of Charlie Munger, we can use pessimism to its full advantage, giving us safer planning, estimation and rollout."

→ theengineeringmanager.com

"Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer"

→ notes.eatonphil.com

120 billion parameters now fit in your pocket, without a cloud connection. The Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, officially verified by Guinness World Records, represents a significant shift in how large language models will be distributed and accessed. This pocket-sized device, measuring 14.2 x 8 x 2.53 cm and

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"Air is a Python web framework designed for AI to write. HTML as Python, HTMX built-in, one file to production." Agree with the thesis. Build better AI. Build better tools. Build easier languages for AI to use.

→ airwebframework.org

Stan, via John and Vitaly, is a breath of fresh air and an open door into what it really means to build high-performing teams and successful SaaS companies. An energizing video! “Stanfrancisco”! P.S. Maybe I should have seen this video earlier - there’s some overlap with Commonplace. Oops 😛

→ Vitalii Dodonov · youtu.be

"The disappearing middle of software work"

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Reading list getting some nice upgrades

"An AI session is a Turing-complete computer. OpenProse is a programming language for it." Minimalistic. Is plain English really the language of the future? Natural language is ambiguous by nature.

→ prose.md

"Interactive Plan Review: Mark up and refine your plans using a UI, easily share for team collaboration, automatically integrates with Claude Code plan mode." Cool

→ plannotator.ai

"What should @Cloudflare build in 2026?" Paying close attention to this

→ x.com

I don’t really have a bookmarking system.I used to use Pocket. It was fine. Then it got discontinued.I tried Readwise after that. Decent enough, but for some reason it never fully clicked.So now my “setup” is Chrome bookmarks and sending links to myself on Telegram. Which, if I’m honest, isn’t a

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Bonkers

→ Alex Hormozi · youtube.com

"It might seem obvious… but your foremost goal when running a compensation cycle is to maximize the talent and enthusiasm of your team. Full stop"

→ blog.staysaasy.com

"CLAWDIS bridges WhatsApp (via WhatsApp Web / Baileys), Telegram (Bot API / grammY), and Discord (Bot API / discord.js) to coding agents like Pi. It’s built for Clawd, a space lobster who needed a TARDIS."

→ clawdis.ai

the year in llms

→ simonwillison.net

Top AI papers of 2025

→ chapterpal.com

http://agi.app

→ agi.app

woop woop, 2 user :D

"It’s not news by now, that the less often we use a muscle the faster it atrophies. The same goes for the brain" Written by me in Medium

→ medium.com

"When we create strategies, we’re told to “skate where the puck is going.” That means predicting the future, such as macro economic trends, and the trends of our industry and immediate competitive markets."

→ longform.asmartbear.com

7h mashup of hormozi videos, a full work day of lessons

→ Alex Hormozi · youtube.com

I felt the browse and feed needed a bit more. Added YouTube thumbnails for YouTube url bookmarks. More to come

inception

→ the-commonplace.com

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONIUpk-kAs

→ Alex Hormozi · youtube.com

"Dopamine isn't interested in having things, dopamine is interested in getting things" Mark Rober is a gem

→ Chris Williamson · youtube.com

ike Tyson famously said that “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” As the COVID bubble burst, we learned that “every biotech has a plan until the market collapses.” AI + Biotech = massive breakthroughs in biology. It’s a fairly lengthy article, but even as a layman in biology,

Read more → centuryofbio.com

https://localflare.dev/ Cool stuff

→ localflare.dev

moved this little platform to a proper domain the-commonplace.com and now subdomains work as intended. Find me at msdbc.the-commonplace.com

https://creatoreconomy.so/p/stop-asking-for-permission-to-do-your-best-work

Commonplace now has PWA support and share to functionality (tested in android)

sequoia content always a nice listen

→ youtube.com

At the end of the day modern AI are optimization algorithims that will try to overfit and cheat their way to whatever reward we use

→ youtube.com

→ thevccorner.com

a very nice (and aesthetic) read, long running tasks are a ... or even not so long but workflows that fail midway..

→ hatchet.run

just a catalyst website redesign and manifesto deployed check it out

→ justacatalyst.com

private beta launched