Two of my projects were about to jump a grade. Nobody had fixed anything.
I have a scanner that grades my own projects. It reads the code, applies a list of rules, subtracts points per finding, and hands each project a lette…
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Why We Built a Forum in 2026 Instead of a Chatbot
Every product meeting in 2026 has the same gravitational pull. Someone says "users have questions," and forty seconds later the whiteboard says chatbo…
The all-purpose agent isn't an architecture. It's a single point of failure with a system prompt.
Intro In a demo, one agent that "does everything" looks like impressive economy: one prompt, one API call, one mental model. Nobody's testing it again…
My bot detector said 95% fake. It agreed with me instantly — that was the tell.
Two days ago I closed a thread here with a line I meant as honest humility: The next thing will ship with the same defect in a fresh costume. Someone …
The memory layer that never calls an LLM: what that buys, and what it costs
Part 4 of **The Answerability Problem , and the one that isn't about abstention. Parts 1–3 argued that the field measures the wrong half and that my o…
Relevance is not answerability: six signals, and none of them beat plain cosine
Part 2 of **The Answerability Problem . Part 1 showed the standard harness excluding the questions that test refusal, my own system scoring 0.000, and…
AI will never replace tech workers because AI is not human
When we talk about AI these days, we're usually talking about large language models. To an LLM, the only reality it knows is data, and to be more spec…
My AI reviewer found nothing for months. I read that as good news.
I build a hospital's internal tools as a non-developer, which means AI writes most of the code. So of course I did the responsible thing: I had AI rev…
From Open Source to Paid Product: Is AI Accelerating the Shift?
I think many of us have already noticed that a growing number of open-source projects and libraries are moving towards commercial or dual-licensing mo…
We got used to it before we understood it
Swipe and there is food at the door. Swipe and there is a date on Thursday. Swipe and there is a stranger's car outside taking you home. Ask for a fun…
AI Worms in Word: How Document-Borne Threats Self-Propagate
AI Worms in Word: How Document-Borne Threats Self-Propagate Meta Description: Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word, cre…
Six articles, 200 views. So I read the feed's source code.
Six articles in two months. About 200 views. Total. Here is the full table, because a postmortem without numbers is just a mood: # Article Views React…
Building a Public Backlog of AI Agent Failures: What's the Worst Thing Your Tests Didn't Catch?
Not looking for a highlight reel of prompt injection screenshots, more interested in the mundane stuff: the agent that called the wrong tool with conf…
Top 7 Featured DEV Posts of the Week
Welcome to this week's Top 7, where the DEV editorial team handpicks their favorite posts from the previous week (Saturday-Friday). Congrats to all th…
From Silent Reader to 25 Articles: What 3 Months on DEV Taught Me + AMA
📌 TL;DR Three months ago, I decided to start writing consistently on DEV. Twenty-five articles later, I've learned far more than how to write better. …
🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: July 2026
Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month! Additionally…
I tried to build an Apple Shortcut from code. Apple said no, four times.
We have a REST API. Apple has Shortcuts, an automation app that can send HTTP requests. Wiring one to the other looked like a free win: "Hey Siri, pub…
How I Reduced My OPEX By 99.5% Using Go
Previously, I wrote about How I Processed 666K Pages Of Flattened PDFs into a Full Text Search Engine called the Apario writer . Upon on the conclusio…
I Built Something Good With AI. Now Some Developer Communities Don't Want to See It.
I recently tried to share an open-source project I've been working on called Open Vectorizer . It's a raster-to-SVG vectorization engine written in Ru…
Software doesn't age. It stops adapting.
A deep-dive into the mechanisms that make software progressively harder to evolve. Introduction An application written ten years ago still works. User…
Learning Python
I started learning Python with CS50 Harvard's Introduction to Programming with Python and honestly, it wasn't part of some grand plan. I've tried a fe…
Feeling lost as a Software Engineer in the age of AI. What’s next?
Hey dev community 👋 I’m a web developer, and lately, I’ve been feeling a bit stuck on where my career is heading. Where I started vs. Where I am now B…
Stop Guessing Your Macros: Building an Autonomous AI Health Agent with AutoGen and HealthKit
We’ve all been there: you hit the gym three days in a row, hit your PRs, and feel like a Greek god. But by Thursday, you're exhausted because you forg…
Your Brain Is a Rendering Engine. So Is Every LLM.
Part 1 of 3. The rest of the series: Part 2: More Compute Won't Wake It Up . Part 3: Two Render Layers Deep Before You've Even Formed an Opinion . Las…
Just for Fun: Fear and Loathing in the Age of Coding Agents
There is a distinct, quiet disquiet settling over the software engineering landscape today. You can feel it in LinkedIn post threads, in hushed conver…
The Person Who Fixed the Bugs Just Vanished
We've been testing a new project this week. The project's origin story is a mess. Upper management used AI to generate an HTML demo, then handed it to…
Letting a stranger contact a car owner without giving them the number
Letting a stranger contact a car owner without giving them the number There is a small, very common problem in Indian cities that turns out to be a su…
AI Can Write Code Faster Than I Can Responsibly Review It
I use Claude Code almost every day while building Zenovay. It can scaffold a feature, trace a bug across several files, write tests, refactor an old m…
Context Is King: Rethinking Domain Ownership, Product, and the "Spec Phase"
If you’ve spent any time recently writing detailed product requirement documents or meticulously crafting ticket specifications, you’ve probably notic…
AI Sleep Coach: Build a Multi-Agent System to Master Your Circadian Rhythm with CrewAI
In the era of "hustle culture," our most valuable asset—sleep—is often the first thing we sacrifice. But what if you could automate your recovery? Tod…