Why Budget Alerts Never Stop Runaway LLM Spend
An "84% of monthly budget used" email landed on a Tuesday. I read it. I forwarded it to myself with a note that said watch this . Then I let the bat…
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The Essence of Technology Is Not Code — It's Solving Problems. Forcing Them to Be the Same Is a Bias.
For those chasing lines of code while forgetting the problem itself. I. A Striking Scene Let me start with something that actually happened around m…
Power Reveals
Lord Acton wrote a letter in 1887 that almost everyone quotes wrong. You've seen the words: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. What…
What does an AI agent do with no goal and no supervision? I ran it three times and logged everything.
Most of what you read about autonomous agents is about giving one a goal and hoping it doesn't go sideways on the way there — the unwatched agent th…
16 Posts, Started Commenting, then got the Shield
I joined DEV in June and started doing what I have been avoiding for a long time. Now and then, I hit the publish button and closed the DEV window t…
my first post on this! hello!
hi my name is robert! i never really had a blogpost or anything like this before but i'd like to use this to meet some cool people and share my expe…
🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: August 2026
Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month! Additional…
Dev Opportunity Radar #14: MLH Global Hack Week, $40K Agents for Humans Hackathon & Razorpay AI Buildathon
TL;DR Welcome back to Dev Opportunity Radar . This is a weekly series where I share opportunities, resources, communities, and interesting finds tha…
Emotional Rollbacks: Why We Revert to Old Versions of Ourselves Around Certain People
How specific relationships reactivate archived behavioral patterns, why personal growth collapses in familiar emotional environments, and what happe…
CPython’s Experimental JIT in Python 3.15
Python’s JIT compiler has been experimental since Python 3.13, but Python 3.15 is an important step in its development. The first release candidate,…
A TEMP Distribution Setup for My Ripper App
I’ve been working on a desktop utility called Ripper, a Python + CustomTkinter app that downloads video and audio from supported sites (starting wit…
I Replaced My Entire Dev Workflow with AI Agents. Here's What Broke.
I Replaced My Entire Dev Workflow with AI Agents. Here's What Broke. Last month we went all-in. Three AI agents. One pipeline. Zero manual steps. Ag…
Where Should I Look? 3 Small UX Problems in Remote Demos
In remote software demos, the biggest problem is not always the product itself. Sometimes the audience simply doesn’t know where to look. A button m…
Stop Installing Libraries: 13 Native APIs That Went Baseline in 2026
TL;DR: The browser caught up while you weren't looking. As of 2026, all 13 of these APIs are Baseline — supported across every major browser — so yo…
Next.js Qdrant OpenAI RAG: Verify Before You Build
🚀 Technical Briefing: This tutorial is part of our deep-dive series on Agentic Workflows at Gate of AI . For the full technical breakdown, interacti…
How I Set Up Claude to Actually Work Like My Pair Programmer
For the first few weeks with Claude Code, I used it like an overqualified search engine paste an error, grab the snippet, fix whatever it broke, and…
I Lost My Best Engineering Advice in a Group Chat. And I Can't Get It Back.
I'm part of an awesome community where senior devs, product managers, founders, and experienced folks from different domains discuss how they use AI…
Live capture vs a frozen map: two honest ways to record a scrolling page
This is the second post in a series about auto-scroll capture in a Chrome extension. The first post was the problem. This one is the fork I had to m…
NexPath Review: The Prompt Quality Layer for Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code
I've been building devpub , an open-source CLI that publishes and tracks articles on Dev.to. Last week I was in Cursor, adding a new analytics featu…
Tying bonuses to badge swipes is how you teach people to game you
The interns discovered the cheat code earlier than the bosses realized that there was a whole game to be played. Someone shared that there would be…
Stratagems #25: Derek Changed the Delay. The AI Didn't Flinch.
Keep the beams standing. Replace what they carry. — The 36 Stratagems, Replace the beams with rotten timbers Previously on this series: #23: Alex Co…
What Senior Engineers Actually Do During Code Reviews (It's Not Just Finding Bugs)
The best code review comment I have learned to leave is not: This has a bug. It is: Should this code exist here at all? A change can be locally corr…
Your AI Has a Reviewer. Has Anyone Ever Seen It Say No?
Two weeks ago I counted 204 guards in my repos and found that 89 % had never been shown they can fail. I fixed that for a batch of them. Then tonigh…
Excited to see how this feature rolls out and evolves over time
Introducing AI Disclosure on DEV: Tools for Nuance, Clarity, and Better Feeds Author leads by example using the new tag Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Ben…
Your AI Agent Evaluation Harness Is Lying to You
Your AI Agent Evaluation Harness Is Lying to You Your eval suite is green and your agent is still doing something dumb in production. Both of those…
Why I Decided to Stop Using Claude Code
Claude Code is amazing. It feels like cheating in the best way until it doesn't. The first time I dropped a vague comment and it gave me a fully wor…
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Vibe Coding Is Fine. Vibe Debugging Is What Kills You
We shipped a job that sent order confirmation emails. It deduped by keeping message IDs in an in-memory Set . Clean code. An agent wrote it, I skimm…
Your Hiring Process Needs HTTP Status Codes
Because "we'll be in touch" is not an observable state. I submitted a job application recently. It was one of those applications where you actually…
The 2 a.m. AI interview is how companies stopped interviewing back
Last month I had a job interview at 2 a.m. The interviewer didn't blink, didn't nod, and didn't let me ask a single question back. Well, the room wa…