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The overlooked power of URLs (News)
Nov 3, 2025 · 7 min · 7.5 MB
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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens.
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- 0:00What up, Sync Conf nerds?
- 0:43The overlooked power of URLs
- 2:01How I use every Claude Code feature
- 2:58AI broke interviews
- 3:42Sponsor: Tiger Data
- 4:32Intern saves TikTok $300K/year because Rust
- 5:40JSON for LLM prompts at half the tokens
- 6:14That's the news for now