50+ min ago   (760+ words) I wanted to build a simple RAG system. That sentence aged badly. The original problem was actually pretty simple. We were organizing a departmental event called Kairos, where participants had to study company information and create pitch decks. The organizers…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1710+ words) I built a measurement harness. I found ten bugs in it. Every one made my results look better than they were, and not one was found by reading the code. Here is the checklist that came out of that. It…...

46+ min ago   (369+ words) AI agents do not only answer questions. They write code, call tools, and load plugins. The hard part is not starting that work. It is what the code is allowed to do once it runs. Permission systems answer “may it…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (475+ words) I'm a believer in architectural approaches — OOP, SOLID, the Essential Principles, DRY — but never all of them, all at once. And nothing beats WordPress Hooks for me: Actions and Filters work small miracles. But today's list has a new entry:…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1070+ words) A 100 in PageSpeed Insights is one of the very few numbers in this job you can chase to a literal maximum, which is exactly why people chase it. It is a score, not a feeling, and getting it forces real…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (632+ words) "The coordination of the builders is not direct. It is the work already done that directs and triggers the work that follows." — Pierre-Paul Grassé, describing termites, 1959 You have seen this. Every agent framework does it:) Three attempts. Three identical failures....

1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (667+ words) A retry loop that consults free inference before it fires again is not resilience. It is a second outage, delayed by a model call that can stall, drift, or disagree with itself. Status codes, idempotency keys, and a hard budget…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1002+ words) Your free probe passed on a scratch box. That green badge still measured the wrong machine. A green free endpoint is a cheap probe. It is not a production ship gate. Treat it like a probe, or you ship luck....

2+ hour, 8+ min ago   (783+ words) Your first AI pull request will often need rollback. Plan that rollback before you merge anything. You lack repo history on day one. Agents still produce large and confident diffs today. A rollback plan keeps that blast radius tiny. First…...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago   (27+ words) You know the moment. You hit enter, the agent starts "thinking," and for the next 15 to 45 seconds... Tagged with ai, productivity, devtools, opensource....