David Eastman

6 days ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

In my developer forecast for 2025 last December, I predicted there would be further developments at Darklang, which started as a great way to build backends as REST services (now known as Darklang-classic), then morphed into an “infrastructure from code” platform — a statically-typed functional programming language — and then went quiet.

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

After my successful use of Claude Code, I was keen to try other equivalent agentic large language model (LLM) tools that aren’t IDE-based. These have better ways to interact with a plan than staring at files. Because a plan can be expressed as an ordered set of well-known coding practices, an LLM just acts as a code wrangler — which we know it does well.

2 weeks ago | alaskawatchman.com | David Eastman

Yesterday, Rep. Mark Green announced his resignation from Congress, which will shrink the current Republican House Majority from 220 to 219, leaving Republicans a razor-thin two vote majority. Meanwhile, the left is currently instigating riots in Los Angeles and Atlanta in an effort to eliminate that majority for good. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that there are 18,600,000 illegal immigrants in the United States today.

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

As the internet and HTML combined in modern tools and apps, people could play with the new potential and we understood why software is eating the world (referencing the classic article by Marc Andreessen). After Large Language Models (LLMs) started to improve exponentially, it is now becoming obvious that AI is eating software. High drama around AI is largely nonsense, but what LLMs have mastered is understanding constrained systems when they are also well documented.

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

Claude Opus 4 has already grabbed quite a bit of attention in the short time it has been public, and in some ways I feel I’m a little slow to the party. I was reading a very detailed breakdown that Federico Viticci did using Claude 4 on the web to sort through his emails. I know he likes detail, but I was slightly worried about the 200-line prompt file he was maintaining.