I burned through thousands of AI tokens. Then a friend did it for free
(yep, kinda clickbait, just for the funsies 😊) At the beginning of the year, I relaunched my...
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What if the safest Kubernetes fix is no fix at all?
AI-assisted DevOps and SRE tools are becoming more common. Tools like K8sGPT can scan Kubernetes...
Image models kept getting my App Store screenshots rejected, so I made my coding agent render them to exact spec
Like a lot of people shipping iOS apps this year, I tried generating App Store screenshots with image...
Make Your AI List Its Assumptions Before It Edits Code
The worst AI code changes start with a quiet guess. You ask for a small refactor. The tool finds a...
How to Build a Competitor Intelligence Agent with CrewAI and ZenRows
A competitor intelligence agent enables real-time pricing visibility, automated positioning tracking,...
AI Agent Infrastructure Is Splitting at the State Layer | Focused Labs
AI agent infrastructure is splitting at the state layer, where checkpoints, memory, identity, traces, policy decisions, and audit records accumulate.
Why Long Prompts Make AI Worse (And How to Fix Them)
Most people, when a prompt stops working, write more. They add clarifications, repeat instructions in...
We built an AI society that argues about outages - and it's 3x more reliable than one agent
How a team of Qwen-powered agents watch a live app, debate what broke, prove their fix against...
What is an "agentic harness," actually?
I've been hearing the word "harness" thrown around a lot lately. I assumed it just meant "the IDE" or...
RES, my personal safeguard against AI
The Problem The more I use AI in my daily life, the longer my conversations get. And the...
From 9% to 63%: Letting a Benchmark Build a Better MCP Security Proxy
I built an open benchmark to measure how much of the MCP (AI-agent) attack surface a defense actually covers — then used that number, one gap at a time, to drive a proxy from 9% to...
My Agent Shipped 3 PRs in an Evening. 40% of My Messages Were Corrections.
Let It Break, Part 3 Last night an agent session I was running submitted three pull requests to...
RAG in Laravel: Embeddings and pgvector for a Knowledge-Base Bot
In the last post we streamed AI responses over SSE. Now let's fix the problem every chatbot hits in...
How do you become a Forward Deployed Engineer? (2026)
The concrete 2026 path to an FDE offer: the skills, the three portfolio artifacts, and the 5-stage interview loop - including the case-study round that fails 60% of candidates.
an efficient .cursor directory: less context, better agents
how to structure your .cursor directory so agents start with the smallest useful context, spend fewer tokens, and produce faster, more focused results
Mastering Edge AI: How to Build High-Speed Vision Analyzers on Android
In the world of Deep Learning, there is a fundamental, almost violent tension: the computational...
Why Uber's $1,200 Claude Code Session Is Actually a Routing Problem
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. One executive racked up a $1,200...
Do We Need MCP Servers for Everyday Life?
Most people do not need another AI chatbot. We already have chatbots that can explain an electricity...
Você está otimizando o custo da IA do jeito errado
Se você usa agentes de IA para programar, provavelmente já tentou economizar usando um modelo mais...
How to Use Subagents in Claude Code
Subagents give Claude Code parallel workers with their own context windows. How to trigger them, define custom ones in .claude/agents/, and when NOT to.
How AI Is Quietly Rewiring Outbound? (and the Tech That Makes It Work)
If you've ever opened your inbox to find seven near-identical "Hey {first_name}, loved your work at...
Give your Laravel AI agent real-time web knowledge
The Laravel AI SDK is provider-agnostic, but its built-in web tools aren't. Here's how to give your agent real-time web knowledge without losing that independence.
I Kept Losing the "Why" Behind My Code Every Time I Closed an AI Chat, So I Built a Tiny Tool to Save It
Last Tuesday I was deep in a session with an AI assistant, rewriting a caching layer that had been...
I built a job board that scores how 'real' each listing is (A–F)
Most remote job listings are ghosts — already filled, never opened, or posted just to farm résumés....