The Day My AI Taught Me That Passing Tests Means Nothing
I never set out to build VentureTwin AI as just another chatbot. The idea was much bigger than answering questions. I wanted to build a digital twin t…
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The cleanup that could never run: a silent Web Push leak in Go
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Nothing reported this bug. No crash, no stack trace, no failing tes…
The rollback endpoint took a deployment ID and did nothing with it
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview Staxa is a multi-tenant deployment platform I a…
I Was Filming a Demo of My Monitoring Tool. The Monitor Wasn't Monitoring.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The project workers-monitor is a Cloudflare Worker I run to watch a…
The Sentry dashboard was empty for months — here's why (and the 2-line fix that mattered most)
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview This backend powers K-XpertAI , the AI coding a…
My Summer of Sleuthing: 373 Merged PRs and the Bugs That Taught Me Everything
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . "The best debugger is a well-rested mind armed with the right tools…
How Sentry Keeps PromptDev Running Smoothly in Production
Building PromptDev ( https://promptdev.site ), a sandbox for developers to construct, stack, and benchmark system instructions, requires a solid error…
The None That Broke Permissions: How a Single Null Crashed Hermes Agent Approvals
A tiny missing check, a silent crash, and a denied permission that should have been safe. This is the story of how I fixed it. About me and why this m…
Sentry's Span Hierarchy Exposed a Silent Retry in My 5-Agent Pipeline. One Agent Took 22.6s, the Others Took 5.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I built an AWS Security Posture Agent : five sp…
Fixing a Live Production AI Agent with Docker, Sentry, and Google AI
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I recently deployed the Dograh AI voice agent (…
Tracing and Resolving a Critical Security Bug in Smart Contract Analysis
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . The Problem During a recent security review, I identified a critica…
*This is a submission for [DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories](https://dev.to/bugsmash) powered by [Sentry](https://sentry.io/).*
The Texture That Vanished I'm 17 and I built a 3D reconstruction pipeline called CODA Forge — it takes a phone rotation video and outputs a photoreali…
Nothing Crashed. Nothing Errored. My CPU Sat at 390% for an Hour.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . A user uploaded a 106-page PDF and clicked "Ask this book". The scr…
The bug that only showed up because my test was too fast
A couple hundred milliseconds cost me an hour, and the annoying part is I'd written the fix for it before I even had the bug. I was writing a Testcont…
One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing.
This is my second entry for the DEV x Sentry Bug Smash challenge. Entry #1 was a crash with a confusing error message . This one is the opposite and i…
Smash Stories: The Bug That Whispered for Two Weeks Before I Heard It
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . My AI agent was misreading financial data 1 in 5 times. No crashes.…
Cleaning up Repository Bloat: Removing Redundant requirements.txt
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview The project rohithtp-cv is a personal repositor…
The Signal Nobody Heard, Fixing a Silent AbortSignal Bug in OpenClaw
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Every codebase has that one bug that looks tiny on paper and beh…
The Redis URL That Leaked Its Own Password Into AI Agent Context
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview ContextOS is a context operating system for AI …
Preserving Resource Attributes During Span Flattening: A Trace Data Collision Story
Tracing pipelines flatten nested OpenTelemetry data (resource attributes + span attributes) into a single flat record before storage. Simple in theory…
I Read All 70 Past DEV Challenges + 542 Winning Submissions - Here's the Bug Smash Playbook
I spent the last few days doing something slightly obsessive: I opened every single past challenge on dev.to/challenges , clicked into each one, found…
Clear the Lineup: Eliminating an N+1 Query Bug to Boost API Performance by 6
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview The project is a full-stack web application bui…
The Acknowledgment Gap - How Event-Driven Systems Lose Messages Without Errors
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . If you have built event-driven systems for any length of time, you …
Smash Story: The Demo Script That Out-Debugged My Test Suite
This is a Smash Stories submission for the DEV Summer Bug Smash : a debugging story about the gap between "all tests pass" and "it actually works" — a…
Matrix Chess Club Bot
See my thinking index.html html <!DOCTYPE html> Matrix Chess Club Bot CHESS CLUB BOT Futuristic matrix vibes, bubble letters, and an icosahedron…
PostgreSQL Query Optimization: Reducing API Response Time from 2.8 Seconds to 74 Milliseconds
Introduction Performance issues rarely announce themselves with obvious errors. More often, they appear as subtle increases in latency that gradually …
Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track. There was a file in my repo called run_benchmark_1_22.py . Not 1 to 24, which is what the…
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The codebase a2a-benchmark is my multi-language A2A (Agent-to-Agent) performance suite…
My benchmark's Python column was N/A for a year — CPython's 4300-digit limit, and eight other bugs
Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Clear the Lineup track. The codebase a2a-benchmark is my multi-language A2A (Agent-to-Agent) performance suite…
The SSE Fragmentation Catastrophe That Took Down CareerPilot AI (Smash Stories)
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . It was 11:14 PM. My friend DM'd me on Twitter: "Your app just hung …