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Play with Code Llama 70B

Meta launched Code Llama in August 2023, free for research and commercial use. Code Llama 70B followed in late January 2024, able to generate and debug larger programming strings. What mattered then was making large open coding models usable in local workflows—not a frozen benchmark snapshot.

Spec-First API Development

OpenAPI spec-first API development is useful for one reason above all others: it forces API decisions into the open before they become compatibility problems in production.

That sounds obvious, but a lot of teams still treat API specs as documentation generated after the real work. By then the real work is already expensive to change. OpenAPI 3.1 is the baseline: in 2026 that is the sane default for modern HTTP API contracts.

Git Submodule

A Git submodule nests another repository inside the current one, to pin an external dependency or a shared component. Use it when a specific vendor commit must stay in history; do not use it as day-to-day package management. Clone and update are clumsier than a plain directory—that cost is part of the choice.