Welcome to Surf Report, your weekly dose of my open tabs! Each week, I’ll be rounding up a handful of links that caught my eye. Think of this as my digital spring-cleaning, where I finally rescue those tabs I’ve left open for weeks, promising myself I’ll read them… only to forget they exist until my browser is begging me to put it out of its misery.
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (8 minute read)
Explores how language models process and generate responses, aiming to uncover the internal mechanisms behind their reasoning by tracing thought-like patterns. It discusses techniques for interpreting model behavior, offering insights into improving transparency and alignment in AI systems.
Fundamentals of Frontend Architecture (Course)
This is a course which has been released for free on Frontend At Scale, targeted towards senior engineers. I haven’t watched it myself yet but looking at the chapters it covers some interesting topics not spoken about enough.
Code Review Like a Pro (6 minute read)
AI changes the game. It spits out code in seconds. But that makes your ability to review code more important than ever.
Speed vs. efficiency: why making faster decisions and choosing the right task matter more than speed (6 minute read)
How speed only matters when its paired with the correct action. Working quickly on the wrong things won’t lead to meaningful progress. “What is the shortest path toward finding the truth here?”
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A Performant Way To Batch Delete Transient Data in WordPress
I worked on a PR recently to introduce an internal function in WooCommerce to batch delete transient data. Metrics suggest its twice as fast compared to an alternative approach, so I decided to write about it.
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