October 29, 2026

Three figures that do not tell a single story

Google says Carbon scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, a test for detecting vulnerabilities in real programs. The idea is that the model can uncover complex flaws within a large codebase, where looking at a single file is not enough. But finding something suspicious does not yet tell us how urgent

October 29, 2026

Can help arrive faster from space?

Here is my counterpoint. In my view, the time it takes to complete an orbit does not let us calculate how long this kit would take to reach a particular shipwreck survivor. If a rocket has to be launched, preparation matters; if the payload is already stored, its location and when it can descend matter. After that, the module would still have to be located

October 28, 2026

89 times faster than GitHub? The figure comes with fine print

It reports 418 pushes per second, compared with 4.7 for GitHub and 65 for Cursor Origin, under its test scenario. That is where the headline of up to 89 times faster than GitHub comes from. Yes, but it measures pushes in that specific test. It does not mean a team will compile, review, or deploy 89 times faster. Nor is it an

October 28, 2026

Why does Task Manager get stuck too?

The computer almost grinds to a halt. You try to open Task Manager to stop the program causing the problem, but Task Manager is also slow to respond. Raymond Chen asks a very specific question in The Old New Thing: why doesn’t Windows give high priority to that tool and the taskb