Computer, Enhance!

Making Sense of the Hype

Using the Anthropic C compiler post as an example, Demetri proposes a two-axis approach for assessing claims about AI.

Mar 13 • Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos

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Q&A #83 (2026-03-11)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Mar 12

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Should You Be A Carpenter?

Is entering the "knowledge economy" today too risky given the field's increasing focus on AI?

Mar 5 • Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos

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Dependency Chain Stalls

The CPU's ability to extract parallelism has its limits.

Mar 4

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January 2026

The Sitdown: Types of DRAM and the DRAM Shortage

On Wednesday mornings, I am often a guest on The Standup podcast. It’s a wide-audience podcast, so we don’t go too in-depth on any particular topic. To…

Jan 31 • Casey Muratori

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Q&A #82 (2026-01-27)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Jan 27

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DynamoDB, Don't Leave Me Hanging!

Please put the "root" back into "root cause analysis".

Jan 5 • Casey Muratori

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December 2025

Dead Code Elimination Prevention Macros

Watch now (26 mins) | This is the eighth video in Part 5 of the Performance-Aware Programming series.

Dec 29, 2025

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Q&A #81 (2025-12-22)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Dec 23, 2025

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November 2025

Our Nemesis Returns

To avoid spoiling the surprise for people who have not yet done the homework, I cannot be any more specific in the title.

Nov 3, 2025

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Q&A #80 (2025-10-31)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Nov 1, 2025

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October 2025

Better Prevention of Dead Code Elimination - Or Is It?

The most straightforward way of isolating a section of optimized code has a hidden gotcha.

Oct 22, 2025

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