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Knowledge Priming: Teaching AI Assistants Your Codebase Like You'd Onboard a Human
Stop fighting AI's generic patterns. Treat project context as infrastructure and watch code quality transform through systematic knowledge priming.
Just-in-Time Tests: How Meta Is Rethinking Software Testing for the Agentic Era
Meta's JiTTests use LLMs to auto-generate bespoke tests per code change, killing false positives and test maintenance overhead in agentic dev workflows.
Just-in-Time Tests: When AI Writes Your Tests Right Before Deployment
Meta's Catching JiTTests use LLMs to auto-generate tests on-demand, targeting regressions without maintenance overhead. A radical shift in testing philosophy.
How Meta Solved Passkey Authentication for Headsets Without Scannable Screens
Meta's novel approach to WebAuthn for XR devices reveals a clever workaround for passkey flows when QR codes aren't possible.
WhatsApp's Rust Rewrite: 160,000 Lines of C++ Gone, Billions Protected
WhatsApp replaced its entire media processing library with Rust, shipping it to 3 billion users. Here's why this is the biggest Rust deployment ever.