This free MacOS app is the secret to getting more out of your local AI models

To save a prompt as a model, select the prompt from the sidebar, then click the Settings icon in the top-right of the Reins window. In the resulting pop-up, click "Save as a new model," which will ...

OpenAI's new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex - but there's a catch

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.

How To Leverage AI Coding Tools Without Sacrificing Code Quality

Engineering teams can’t afford to treat AI as a hands-off solution; instead, they must learn how to balance experimentation ...
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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly ...
IEEE

Beyond Syntax: How Do LLMs Understand Code?

Abstract: Within software engineering research, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often treated as ‘black boxes’, with only their inputs and outputs being considered. In this paper, we take a machine ...
InfoWorld

CPython vs. PyPy: Which Python runtime has the better JIT?

JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.