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.

ChatGPT 5.3 Codex Launches : 5 Things You Need to Know

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.3 Codex offering a 25% speed increase over GPT-5.2 Codex, helping developers ship code faster.

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.

So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...
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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 ...