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You Already Know What Your First AI Rule Should Be. You Just Have Not Written It Down Yet.
Every developer who works with AI regularly has a list of corrections they make. Not a written list. A mental one. The things they fix after every ses…
I Failed a Python Interview Because I Could Write Code But Not Read It
I want to tell you about the most embarrassing 45 minutes of my developer career. I had been practicing LeetCode for three months. Easy problems, done…
The Biggest Challenges Software Developers Are Facing in 2026
Software development is evolving faster than ever, but developers are facing several new challenges: 🔹 Keeping Up with AI Tools AI coding assistants i…
Ollama Structured Outputs in Practice — Getting Type-Safe JSON from Local LLMs with Pydantic
json.loads(response) fails at a certain point. You told the model "return JSON only," but it added a ```json markdown code fence around everything. A …
Intelligence Brief: The Disinformation Machine
The Disinformation Supply Chain: How Coordinated Influence Campaigns Are Built Before They Go Viral Article from Digital HUMINT Series, For better und…
Overcoming Architectural Dogma: Why Infrastructure is a Business Stage Decision
One of the most persistent traps in modern software development is the tendency to turn architectural styles into absolute dogmas. We see it constantl…
Startup Security Guide & LLM CISO
An open-source security guide, compliance checklist, and LLM-based virtual CISO persona for startups -- with specialized coverage for foreign companie…
Fire-and-forget AI engineering: letting agents ship a production app unsupervised
"An AI agent just built a production landing page, with GDPR audit logs and encryption baked in. I wasn't even at my desk." That is not a lucky one-sh…
Introduction to LLMs for Beginners
We're going to build a command-line Topic Explainer that takes any subject and breaks it down for a chosen audience, from absolute beginner to expert.…
Claude Code in Production: The Guardrails Nobody Talks About (Until Something Leaks)
Your Claude Code session just spit out a perfect PR description, refactored three services, and drafted commit messages for the entire sprint. Clean. …
AI Built My UI in 2 Hours. Then I Spent 3 Weeks Fixing It.
The PR had 47 changed files. Three new React components, two API routes, a context provider, and what appeared to be an entire form validation library…
AI Doesn't Replace Thinking. It Amplifies It.
One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding artificial intelligence is that it eliminates the need for human thinking. In my experience, the opposit…
Retrieval‑Augmented Memory Reduces Sliding‑Window Limitations in Video Models
VideoMLA’s low‑rank latent KV cache cuts KV‑cache demand by roughly 90 % and LongLive‑RAG’s retrieval‑augmented memory helps mitigate the temporal dri…
From ML Tooling to Analytical Governance: Recent Updates to KMDS
Over the last few months I've been refining KMDS, a framework for building repeatable and auditable machine learning systems. The original motivation …
SpaceX Acquires Cursor Maker Anysphere to Build an AI Coding Agent Model
SpaceX's acquisition of Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, signals a major shift in how we build software. Coding agents started as simple helper panels …
How much VRAM do you actually need to run Llama 3 or Gemma locally?
Every few days someone in a local LLM thread asks the same question: "will this run on my 3060?" And the answers are almost always vibes. "Should be f…
Vibe citing: how KPMG used AI to write a report about AI and AI made them look like fools
vibe citing: how KPMG used AI to write a report about AI and AI made them look like fools by t474-r0b07 There are companies that charge you to tell yo…
Few-Shot Learning with LLM: A Deep Dive
Few-shot learning with large language models is one of the most practical ways to steer model behavior without updating weights. By embedding task-spe…
Why AI Agents Make Me Reach for SQLite
Lately I keep reaching for SQLite where, before, I'd have reached for Postgres without thinking. It started with small services, then a bigger questio…
Block the Merge if the Model Isn't Ready": Shifting Local AI Evaluations Left with CI Gates
We’ve all heard "it works on my machine," but when it comes to AI-driven features, that phrase is a recipe for disaster. You can have a perfectly test…
AI Made Development Faster. Testing Needs to Stop Living in Spreadsheets.
AI agents are making software development faster. That is great. But there is a problem I do not think we are talking about enough: testing is not spe…
I Stopped Using Heavy IDEs. AI Became My IDE.
I used to think a serious developer needed a serious IDE. Big project? Open PhpStorm. Design work? Open Photoshop. Need every refactor, every inspecti…
IRUTESAM V1.0 – A Cost-Effective IoT-Based Multi-Testing Device Using ESP32
Introduction Modern embedded development and wireless testing often require multiple specialized tools for analyzing Wi-Fi networks, testing NFC cards…
Why Google’s Open Knowledge Format Matters for Developers and Content Creators?
Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from a lack of shared context. Definitions, caveats, ownership, and “how to use this safely” …
AI doesn't write bad code. It writes plausible code — so I tried to break my own AI-built app
Disclosure: I work on one of the tools in this post ( create-microservices-app ). But the experiment, commands, and outputs below are real, and the pa…
My AI agent got dumber mid-session. I measured the context window before blaming MCP.
There's a particular way an AI coding agent goes bad. Not a crash, not an error. It just gets duller. Halfway through a long session it forgets a cons…
The AI Agent Payment Wars Have Begun — Here's What Actually Matters
Visa announced this week that AI agents can now use credit cards. Mastercard launched a protocol for AI-to-AI payments and micropayments. Catena Labs …
What Does "Code Accuracy" Mean When AI Builds Your App?
When a non-technical founder asks whether an AI app builder produces "accurate" code, they usually mean one thing: does it run without crashing? That …
Why the retry loop is usually the expensive part of agent work
The first failure usually is not the expensive one. The expensive part is what happens after the first failure when the system keeps trying, keeps spe…