https://sparsenotes.com/series/weekly-videos-2026-11/ Recent content in weekly-videos-2026-11 on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/code-matters-rust-llm-age-bryan-cantrill/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/code-matters-rust-llm-age-bryan-cantrill/ Bryan Cantrill argues that Rust succeeded by optimising for the artifact rather than the developer, that the same choice makes it a strong target for LLM-generated code, and that LLMs' lack of laziness makes them bad at the thing that matters most: creating abstractions. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/concurrency-is-not-parallelism-rob-pike/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/concurrency-is-not-parallelism-rob-pike/ Rob Pike's Heroku Waza talk explains that concurrency is a way to structure a program as independently executing pieces, and that parallelism, which is about execution, is something a good concurrent design gets almost for free. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/unhobbling-the-frontier-lance-martin/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/unhobbling-the-frontier-lance-martin/ Lance Martin argues most LLM applications sit inside the cost/quality frontier because of fixable misconfigurations: stale prompt habits, broken prompt caching, unclimbable evals, overfit hill-climbing and harnesses not built for multi-day agents.