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Simon Willison's Notes: Tobi's Autoresearch PR Boosted Liquid Benchmarks by 53%
Simon Willison published notes on Tobi Lütke's autoresearch PR — an AI-driven experiment loop that made the Liquid template language (which Tobi created for Shopify 20 years ago) 53% faster with 61% fewer memory allocations.
Redis Is More Than Just a Cache: Don't Drive a Ferrari to Buy Groceries
Most developers know Redis as a cache. But using Redis only as a cache is like buying a Ferrari just to drive to the grocery store. Redis isn't a cache that happens to be fast — it's a data structure server that happens to be great at caching.