Email Verification Logs Need a Privacy Contract
Email verification is usually discussed as a delivery problem: did the message arrive, did the link work, and did the user finish signup? In product…
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Pin baseUrl in the Gateway, Not in the Agent's Prompt
The other day an agent I was testing kept hitting production. Not on purpose, not because it was being clever. It was reading the OpenAPI spec we ha…
Drift Checks in TDK CLI: Fail Fast, Generator Changes, and Catching Hand Edits Before Commit
A drift check answers one question: has someone changed a generated file by hand? TDK runs that check before Tilt starts, so a hand edit stops the s…
Building a Rust CLI With clap: Arguments, Errors, and Help That Works
A command-line tool lives or dies on its arguments. A flag that silently ignores bad input, a help screen that does not match the code, or an error…
A mental health feature for people who work with agents
It's late. The review agent has found one more thing: a boundary case in a regex. The coding agent fixes it, opens another PR, and the reviewer find…
The Portability Audit Take-Home: Grade Environment Assumptions, Not Features
A take-home that runs on the reviewer's laptop grades features; a take-home that runs anywhere grades engineering discipline. The task below asks a…
Hermes Agent v0.22.0 The Threshold Release คืออะไร? รุ่นใหญ่ที่สุดของ AI agent ที่โค้ดหดลง 34%
Hermes Agent v0.22.0 The Threshold Release คืออะไร? รุ่นใหญ่ที่สุดของ AI agent ที่โค้ดหดลง 34% โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | 17 ตุลาคม 2026 บทความนี้เขียนโดย…
Properties Without Witnesses Are Decorations: A Falsifiability Gate for Agent Patches
A property that passes on the patched tree and on the pre-patch tree carries no information. That is the first thing to measure, before you trust an…
DevOps Email Tests Need a Handoff Contract
DevOps Email Tests Need a Handoff Contract Email tests in CI often fail at the boundary between two jobs: one job creates a disposable inbox, anothe…
Harvard's field data on coding agents: +30% code, +49% review time, flat output
A 78-page job market paper landed last week that puts field numbers on the argument everyone has been having from vibes. Fiona Chen and James Stratt…
The Bug Is in the Files: Characterize Filesystem Side Effects Before a Messy Refactor
Conclusion first: in a messy repo, the refactor usually breaks files, not stdout. Teams write golden tests for console output. Almost nobody asserts…
Python GA on Vercel, New Reasoning Models, and Layout-Aware Diffusion: Issue #110
This week's releases cluster around a clear theme: reducing the infrastructure surface area developers have to manage. Vercel made a serious push to…
11 MCP Servers That Prove MCP Isn't Dead
Disclosure: I'm the founder of PDFHaul, which is #5 on this list. Originally published on the PDFHaul blog , where the full source list with links l…
Which of your rule files the reviewer actually reads
Every AI review tool claims it reads your AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. What decides whether your standards actually land is which rule wins when two appl…
Why Google Put a Runtime Monitor on Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 4 Argon this week. The headline numbers look like typical frontier model marketing: top rank on the Vals Index, a 1M…
From "this is broken" to a fix PR I merge by hand
Sentry starts from what the code threw. Mushi starts from what the user felt. This is the post I wanted to read before I built Mushi. My Sentry dash…
Startup credits are a moving target — here's how to verify them against an open registry
Every founder eventually collects a folder of "startup credits" links: cloud credits, API allowances, free tiers that scale. The problem is that the…
The artifact worth reviewing when agents write the code
GitHub's Security Lab reported 24 Android vulnerabilities found by an AI security agent, and the part worth copying is what ended up version-control…
Stop Correcting Your Coding Agent Twice: How KeepPlain Turns Repeated Mistakes Into Rules
I've been working with coding agents every day for a long time now: mostly Claude Code, a lot of Codex, and sometimes Cursor and Pi. At some point,…
Six hosted sandboxes say "isolated." None tells you which wall your agent ran behind
A Show HN went up yesterday for plimsoll , a Go daemon you run yourself that executes code an agent wrote. The sandbox part is ordinary. The interes…
Hermes IDE vs Cursor vs Warp vs Zed: 4 Ways to Run Coding Agents in Parallel
Hermes IDE: Download free · Star it on GitHub — one console for every coding agent, on macOS, Windows and Linux Book: AI Agents Pocket Guide · AI in…
IntelliJ Was Built for Typing Code. Hermes IDE Is Built for Agents That Type It
Hermes IDE: Download free · Star it on GitHub — one console for every coding agent, on macOS, Windows and Linux Book: AI Agents Pocket Guide · AI in…
The Editor-First IDE Is Dead. Your Next IDE Is a Control Tower
Hermes IDE: Download free · Star it on GitHub — one console for every coding agent, on macOS, Windows and Linux Book: AI Agents Pocket Guide · AI in…
CI Email Tests Need a Run Manifest
Email assertions are often the least explainable part of an otherwise tidy CI pipeline. A browser test can tell you that a verification link was not…
When Agent Chains Run for Hours: Why Checkpointing Is the Real Challenge
Today's GitHub Trending tells an interesting story. morluto/rea uses agent chains to reverse engineer anything "from app behavior down to native bin…
Config in TypeScript, and why there are no named inputs
Turborepo and Nx both grew the same features for the same reason. globalDependencies , globalEnv , namedInputs , targetDefaults , extends : every on…
The basics, done carefully
Small things decide whether a tool feels solid: what a bare command does, what happens in a pipe, and how the CI log reads. Here is how vx handles e…
Ship one app, not the whole monorepo
A Docker image for one app should not install the dependencies of forty others. And when another team bumps a package in their app, your image's ins…
A task sees only the env it names
Run env in your terminal and count. Tokens, cloud keys, a PS1 , a proxy, something an installer left behind years ago. If a build could read all of…
The sandbox: turning a declaration into a boundary
The previous post argued that inputs must be declared, not inferred. Declared inputs have a weakness of their own: they can be wrong, and a task tha…