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Our main app is TypeScript. The build is Vite, the tests are Vitest, the CLI scripts are Node. Every engineer on the repo is comfortable in that sta…
Seven stories from the past 24 hours, each anchored to at least one official source. This edition keeps circling one theme: when agents do the work,…
The function looked wrong. It returned an object with a key that started with a dollar sign, it did a network call inside a loop, and it mapped one…
The test file passed. The function it was supposed to cover was broken. The mock was the giveaway. CI went green. Coverage on the new module jumped…
The PR comes in. CI is red. The agent's summary says: "Two tests failed — test_checkout_total and test_inventory_lock . Both were already failing on…
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I stared at a LeetCode screen and felt like I’d been dropped into the middle of a Dark…
The CI log shows a timeout. You send the failure to your agent. Two minutes later, it opens a PR: await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500)) befo…
You leave a comment in the middle of a refactor: // TODO: cache this call for the list endpoint You meant: come back to this when the list page actu…
Your tests pass. But would they catch a bug? Imagine asking an AI coding agent to implement a feature. A few minutes later, it has generated the imp…
A student writes a program that performs the same calculation thousands of times, even though the answer never changes. The program works. The outpu…
Today's AI landscape shifts toward privacy concerns and industry pragmatism. We see a clash between silent deployment and human-centric workforce st…
You ask your agent to cover a new function. It comes back with eight tests, all green. You move on. Sometime later you're staring at the diff and a…
Code Is the New Assembly. Stop Reviewing It. Gergely Orosz, the voice behind The Pragmatic Engineer with over a million subscribers, recently posted…
Last week I watched an agent spend eleven minutes on a failing integration test, hit a wall, and then do the thing I should have expected: It delete…
Give an agent a ticket that says "add a refund endpoint for cancelled orders." It will write a route, a service method, a migration, and three tests…
The diff that looks like a win You hand the agent a 40-line helper that's been in production since 2022. You ask it to "clean this up." Thirty secon…
Why Every Developer Needs an Ethical Hacking Mindset 🔓 We spend hours writing clean code and shipping features fast. But how often do we test how ea…
Monday's feed was quieter than last week's DevDay storm, but the undercurrents all point the same way: the industry is now arguing about delivery di…
When I started building my Polymarket TWAP End-Cycle Sniper, the original idea was simple: Find a high-probability opportunity near the end of a sho…
Today's AI landscape is a clash between breakthrough accessibility and alarming safety lapses. While Google DeepMind opens the gates with Gemma 4, O…
A fix can remove the first failure and still violate the contract. Here are three small examples where the attempted repair looks reasonable until y…
This is a continuation of my previous article on using ARM NEON to do matrix multiplication. Here's a fun one, we're going to use BFMMLA to do 2x4 @…
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I’ve stared at a function that was longer than my grocery list and felt like I was trying to read a novel wri…
What Is Kilo Code Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that lives everywhere you work, VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and cloud. It launched in 202…
I build Empryo, an AI coding agent for desktop and terminal. In my benchmark published on 16 August 2026, Empryo and pi both fixed all four bugs on…
A question came up at work recently: can we ditch our $20 monthly coding subscriptions and just use DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, paying per token instead? So…
For most of my career, code review has been a fairly simple idea. One engineer writes some code, opens a pull request, and another engineer reviews…
AI Coding Assistant Comparison: Copilot vs. Cursor vs. Codeium 2026 The AI coding assistant landscape is a battlefield, with GitHub Copilot, Cursor,…
Take one model and give it 169 real bug-fixing tasks from SWE-bench Verified. Keep the weights, the tasks and the context window exactly the same. C…
Master the Basics: The Ultimate JS Do’s and Don'ts for Beginners JavaScript is the engine of the modern web, turning static pages into interactive e…