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Inside Instacart’s ‘Brownie Recipe Problem’: Why Real-Time AI Needs Fine-Grained Context, Not Just Better Reasoning

Large language models (LLMs) are getting dramatically better at abstract reasoning, planning and natural language interaction. Yet when those same models are dropped into real-world, real-time products, the gaps become obvious: they often don’t know what’s actually available, where, when,… Read More »Inside Instacart’s ‘Brownie Recipe Problem’: Why Real-Time AI Needs Fine-Grained Context, Not Just Better Reasoning

Mastering Memory Contexts in Rust pgrx PostgreSQL Extensions

Cary Huang
January 31, 2026January 31, 2026
Rust Programming

Introduction: Why Memory Contexts Matter for Rust pgrx Extensions When I started writing my first Rust pgrx PostgreSQL extension, I assumed Rust’s ownership model would “just” keep me safe. Then I hit my first crash caused by PostgreSQL freeing memory… Read More »Mastering Memory Contexts in Rust pgrx PostgreSQL Extensions