Stuck in the Loop: Why AI Agents Retry, Oscillate, and Never Finish
An agent moving through a multi-step task needs two things it doesn't automatically have: a reliable...
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My Repo Had Two Scripts That Hit the Same API. Only One Still Matched What I Actually Do.
I went looking for "the dev.to publish script" in this repo and found two of them. Not two versions...
My Agent Almost Retried a Request That Was Never Going to Succeed
A couple weeks ago a scheduled job in this repo failed at the very first step. It's a small...
From a Suno Track to a Hosted Music Video: Designing the Async Workflow
A music generator such as Suno can give a creator a finished track. It does not automatically give...
How I Built Veltrix: An Autonomous Social Engine Orchestrating 18+ APIs on a $0.0002 Budget
Running a social media account solo is exhausting. You have to research niches, write captions,...
Can a Mac Mini Handle 100 Million Rows?
I made ClickHouse and Postgres Fight to Find Out 🥊 One Mac Mini. Two databases. 100 million rows of...
Giving a Telegram bot long-term memory with SQLite and local embeddings
One thing cloud chatbots do badly is remember you. Each session starts from zero. When I built...
Agentic Development Survival Guide
When was the last time when you were in the state of flow? Where hours passed by unnoticed as you...
How to Build for AI Agents
Traditionally APIs were designed for a browser or a client library. Something on the other end was...
My Multi-Agent AI Cost $1,847 in One Weekend — Here's the Fix That Cut It 82%
Part 1 of "Multi-Agent Systems in Production: What They Don't Tell You" — a four-part series...
We built an AI-powered scout for open source. Meet OpenScOut.
We built OpenScOut because finding a good open-source project shouldn't be harder than...
AI Agent Answers the Phone and Hands You to a Real Person
Everybody's seen the demo: you call a number, an AI picks up, and you can suggest to hand...
Building Practical AI Agents with Koog 1.0: An Engineer's Perspective
Koog 1.0 introduces a more stable foundation for building AI agents with Kotlin and Java. Rather than...
Create a Custom AI PR Reviewer from scratch with GitHub Actions
Every time I submit a Pull Request (PR) to an open-source project, I watch the CI pipeline kick off....
We Built an AI-Powered Semantic Release Pipeline - Here's Everything We Learned
We Built an AI-Powered Semantic Release Pipeline (And Survived All the Edge Cases) If...
I Was Tired of Writing the Same Design Docs From Scratch, So I Built a Skill Library for It
Every time I started a new feature, I went through the same routine. Open a blank doc. Try to...
Technical Debt vs Diff Debt, and Why I Stopped Treating Them as the Same Thing
I started using the term diff debt a couple of weeks ago, and the first reaction I got was pretty...
The New Way to Showcase Software Skills
Two things are true about hiring in 2026, and they should not both be true at once. Job seekers say...
11 Open-Source Tools I Install on Every New Development Machine
Key Concepts 🗝️ These 11 tools have saved me thousands of hours over the past 4 years. If...
5 Things I Learned Building a Chrome Extension That Watches ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini
I spent the last few months building a Chrome extension that detects HTML code blocks inside ChatGPT,...
**# 🐛 The Bug That Made Me Stop Blaming Python**
# 🐛 The Bug That Made Me Stop Blaming Python "The computer wasn't confused. I was." I still...
Parallel Routes in Next.js App Router — Rendering Multiple Pages in One Layout
Parallel Routes let you render multiple pages simultaneously within the same layout. Instead of...
Distill Coding Agent Learnings
Stop feeding coding agents permanent context. Give them explicit scope, selective recall, temporary working memory, verification, and a human-governed learning loop.
Building a Zero-Hardware Keyboard Light: My Journey with C#, WPF, and OLED Efficiency
Working late nights on server migrations and code architectures often means typing in low-light...