Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

Rust provides ~25–31× speedup as vocab grows from 512 → 2048. Scaling with vocab size is much better in Rust: mildly superlinear vs. clearly more superlinear in Python. For this small dataset with ...

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio chips are ubiquitous from Raspberry Pi to lightbulbs. BLE is an elaborate technology with a comprehensive specification, but the basics are quite accessible. A ...