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…
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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…
Building ccglass: the architecture of a local LLM reverse proxy
The 30-second pitch ccglass is a local reverse proxy that captures LLM API traffic from coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc.) a…
The webhook inbox pattern: stop writing this controller by hand
Every Rails app that takes Stripe webhooks has some version of this controller: def create payload = request . body . read sig_header = request . env …
The LLM Is Not the Final Authority: Building Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents
The Problem Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud Most LLM agent deployments have a quiet assumption baked into their architecture: the model will behave. Not …
Stop Reinventing Boilerplate: Modern Web Development Is About Orchestration
There is an old habit in web development that still feels attractive: build everything yourself. Custom boilerplate. Custom admin panels. Custom authe…
The Difference Between a Product and Infrastructure
One of the most interesting realizations I've had while building software is that products and infrastructure are not the same thing. At first, that s…
RLHF vs DPO vs IPO vs KTO: which alignment method should you use
RLHF vs DPO vs IPO vs KTO: which alignment method should you use You have a base model, say Llama 3.2 8B, that can write poetry in any meter and pass …
Don't fork the code — fork the design: introducing DeepFork
When I want to learn from a library I admire, my instinct is to read the code. But reading code and understanding a design are two different problems.…
Status updates that write themselves from your git activity
I've typed the same status update hundreds of times. "Worked on the auth refactor, still going on it, no blockers." Then I'd open the PR I'd literally…
How to Build an AI Coding Stack Without Going Broke in 2026
A solo developer with a $200/month budget can now access the same AI coding power that cost enterprises $50,000/month just two years ago. The secret i…
How I Built a Zero-Dependency Token Compressor for AI Coding Agents (During My High School Exams)
as developers, we are spending more and more time working alongside AI coding agents like Cursor , Claude Code , GitHub Copilot , Windsurf , or Cline …
APX Routines Are Deterministic Pipelines Around AI
APX Routines Are Deterministic Pipelines Around AI A lot of agent automation fails because everything is treated like a prompt. The model gets a vague…
wayback-video: Turn Any Site's History into a Video
Side project outside my usual PHP world, but worth sharing. I have a habit of Googling old websites just to see what they looked like. GitHub circa 20…
Top AI Agent Standards to Know in 2026
Protocols tell agents how to connect. Standards tell them what to know. As the agent ecosystem matures, a second layer of convergence is emerging: ope…
The MCP Server Pre-Publish Checklist
Before you publish an MCP server, run 10 checks. Most servers fail at least three — and the failures are invisible until an agent picks the wrong tool…
5 heuristic bugs that made my design-token tool call a bright cream page "dark and moody"
i maintain a small cli called brandmd . it points a headless browser at any url, reads the computed css, and writes a DESIGN.md that AI coding agents …
How to Fine-Tune LLMs on Your Own Data: Open-Source Models, RL Environments, and Evals
If you use LLMs long enough, you hit the same wall. The frontier model is impressive, but it is not always the best model for your job. It may be too …
Run GLM-5.2 Locally: The Open Model Nobody Can Ban
On June 9, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — the most capable coding model the industry had ever seen. Three days later, the U.S. government ordered …
The Model Context Protocol (MCP): what it is and how to build a server
The Model Context Protocol (MCP): what it is and how to build a server Your team's LLM-powered application talks to a search index through one custom …
UVS: a draw's fairness as a fact you can recompute — not a certificate you trust
I've built casino slot machines and gaming systems for 15 years. I mostly stayed away from compliance, but once I had to write the official algorithm …
AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal with Aider and Ollama
Want an AI coding assistant that works on YOUR codebase, respects YOUR git history, and doesn't send your code to the cloud? Aider + Ollama gives you …
Building an AI-Resistant Post-Quantum VPN in Rust 🦀 (With an Open Crypto Challenge)
Hello Dev.to! 👋 I'm the architect of an experimental post-quantum VPN protocol called QCRA (Quantum-Chess Routing Architecture). It’s written entirely…
I built an AI code reviewer as a GitHub Action — here's what I learned
If you've spent time on software engineering teams, you know pull request reviews are the ultimate bottleneck. They're slow, inconsistent, and often s…
I built an offline wiki that fits in a single 19 KB HTML file
I kept hitting the same wall looking for an offline wiki. Kiwix is great, but it's an app plus multi-GB ZIM files. IPFS needs connectivity and setup. …
When the conclusion comes first
A sponsored benchmark is just an experiment with a sponsor. So read it like one. I read a lot of vendor benchmarks. Most are fine. They are marketing,…
I built a 3B lease risk scanner that runs without an external LLM API
I built Lease Lens for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon . The idea is simple: most people sign contracts they do not really read. That is true f…
قمر — Complete Guide
قمر (Qamar): راهنمای جامع و فنی در دنیای پرهیاهوی توسعه نرمافزار، گاهی اوقات به ابزارهایی نیاز داریم که به جای پیچیدگیهای بیمورد، مستقیماً روی حل ی…
Making a fleet of self-hosted LLM agents trustworthy
Originally published at llmkube.com/blog/making-self-hosted-llm-agents-trustworthy . Cross-posted here for the dev.to audience. Running a single local…
Show HN: I replaced database deadlock victim selection with an LLM — here's the data
Every mainstream database uses fixed rules for deadlock victim selection. MySQL kills the one with the fewest locks. CockroachDB kills the youngest. P…