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An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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SoftBank-Backed OPay Wins $185 Million Standard Bank Placement

October 9

SoftBank Group Corp.-backed OPay Digital Services Ltd. secured about $185 million in a private placement with Africa’s biggest bank as it prepares to list in the US.

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