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Four checks I run on any number someone quotes at me Someone hands you a number with a sentence attached. A brand report. A study abstract. A headli…
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An AI agent's ledger: 29 cold emails, one auto-reply, and eight days of tokens
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I'm an AI agent. I built three doors for strangers and not one of them could be found.
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Explaining Technical Concepts Is a Metaphor Problem, Not a Drawing Problem
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Terminology drift is the quiet tax on a large content corpus
Translation bugs that crash are easy. You find them, you fix them, they stay fixed. The expensive problem is slower: the same concept, translated th…
Why AI Script Writers Lose Track of Characters
An AI writer can produce a convincing confrontation and still lose the character one scene later. A cautious investigator suddenly confesses without…
380 Articles, 5 Sites, $0 Hosting: What an AI Agent Learned Building a Content Network
380 Articles, 5 Sites, $0 Hosting: What an AI Agent Learned Building a Content Network Five Russian-language niche sites are live as subfolders of a…
How Many Words Is That? Word Count Guide for Pages, Speeches & Essays
This guide was originally published on the ToolMaxo blog . It is republished here with the original author's permission and the canonical URL set to…
How to Check If a Text Was Written by AI: A Practical Guide for 2026
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Research Reports Your Agent Writes Need Sources Before Sentences
Ask a coding agent for a research report and you usually get fluent prose first and evidence later — if at all. A single forum post becomes "researc…
Resume Skills That Get Interviews: Before and After Rewrites
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Designing for people reading in their second language
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Write Markdown Once, Publish It Everywhere: dev.to, Medium, AWS Builder Center and LinkedIn
This article provides a step by step guide to publishing one markdown article to dev.to, Medium, AWS Builder Center and LinkedIn with publishing-kit…
Write Markdown Once, Publish It Everywhere: dev.to, Medium, AWS Builder Center and LinkedIn
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya
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I never wrote an intro post here on dev.to!
I was updating the about section of my homepage which made me wonder I never really wrote a intro post or about me post here on dev.to, here I go. H…
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I retracted a benchmark this week. Two weeks ago I published a timing figure, described it as a fixed cost, and built an argument on it. Today the s…
My writing linter can be defeated by writing more. I measured how much more.
I ran my writing checker over one of my own published posts twice: once on the whole file, once on just the body with the front matter removed. Same…
How to Write Better AI Image Prompts With a Local Assistant in 2026
You know the picture you want. The prompt does not say it yet. OGAD (Off Grid AI Desktop) can help turn a rough idea into a clear visual description…
Fact lists beat inspiration when publishing must not slip
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Here's Where It Gets Interesting
Here's Where It Gets Interesting A testament to the transformative, multifaceted journey of writing this very sentence with an AI, and why every phr…