#optimization

Recent work turns skills, harnesses, and context into objects you can search over and benchmark — optimizing the English around a frozen model instead of the model.

A deep dive into context engineering — the techniques that separate toy demos from production AI agents. Covers compaction, offloading, isolation, caching, and prioritization with real examples from Manus, Claude Code, and Devin.

Best practices and strategies to optimize React's useEffect hook — minimizing dependencies, cleaning up side effects, custom hooks, useMemo, debouncing, and more.