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2026 1

  1. Claude Code's poor time awareness

2025 7

  1. Auto-vectorizing operations on buffers of unknown length
  2. Bypassing the branch predictor
  3. Improving on std::count_if()'s auto-vectorization
  4. Getting rid of unwanted branches with __builtin_unreachable()
  5. My approach to writing
  6. A Clang regression related to switch statements and inlining
  7. Eliminating redundant bound checks