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What Happens When You Run Hotspots on 102,000 Functions

Stephen Collins • Mar 14, 2026
3 mins
I stress-tested Hotspots against VS Code (102k functions) and found an O(N³) bug, a sampling tail exclusion bug, and a philos...
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AI Made Code Cheap. The Bottleneck Is Now Understanding Systems.

Stephen Collins • Mar 8, 2026
6 mins
AI removed code production as the engineering bottleneck. The new constraint is comprehension — and most developer tooling wa...
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I Built a CLI to Find the Riskiest Code in Any Repo — Introducing Hotspots

Stephen Collins • Mar 1, 2026
5 mins
Every codebase has a small cluster of files that cause most of the pain—slow reviews, recurring bugs, incident after incident...
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