I'm curious to see what impact Microsoft's purchase of GitHub has on the long term prospects of Atom.
Atom is a lovely editor pushing the boundaries of web tech amd editor design in several areas, but its usecase is similar to VS Code. Would MS want to fund three editor teams?
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I'm adding uptime data to my personal LLM bot. Does this information belong in the system prompt?
That was my initial plan, but I'm thinking that a tool would be better. Tools let me see information provenance ("queried the uptime tool").
There's also a small caching benefit.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1.
The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.