Three weeks of watching MCP advisories appear and disappear
Three weeks ago I published a single-night scan of the top 500 MCP servers. Then I left the scanner...
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I tested ChatGPT's PDF Content Credentials: what survives a re-save, a print and an edit
Ten ChatGPT-generated PDFs carried a C2PA manifest signed by OpenAI. I re-saved, re-rendered, rasterised and edited them to see what is left. Code included.
Why my Arabic debate-scoring engine refuses to give one overall score
In debate, two judges can score the same speech differently. Students get a number with no reasons,...
I tested whether eBPF helps diagnose slow AI agents. I wrote my predictions first and got many wrong.
A slow AI agent run is a chain of network calls: the model, tools, a database, outside APIs. An...
AI Visibility Is Real, but It Is Not a Standalone Performance Metric
AI visibility is measurable, but a growing body of research suggests that many dashboards overstate...
How Do You Stop Your AI Agent From Leaking Your Users' Data?
Your AI agent just summarized a customer's support ticket, drafted a reply, and queued it for review....
People are rebuilding whole languages in Rust with AI. I’m still asking why.
PHP, TypeScript, vibe coded and public. One ran up over $420k in API-priced tokens. Here’s what I...
Stars Aren't Benchmarks: How a 10-Star Memory Tool Out-Scored the 60k-Star One
Open source has a discovery problem, and it isn't search. It's that attention gets mistaken for...
Why Tesseract Fails on Cursive Handwriting (And How We Built a Two-Tier Vision Pipeline in Node.js)
When building Holder—a personal information vault and second brain for screenshots, links, and...
The one-word bug that kills keyword search in your Postgres RAG
If your RAG runs on Postgres + pgvector, you have probably added full-text search next to vector...
Criando um agente de IA 24/7 para aplicações .NET
Um agente de plantão em .NET 10 com o gpt-5.4-mini no Microsoft Foundry, com ferramentas, aprovação humana, orçamento de tokens e o que fazer quando a cota do Foundry estoura.
284B on 64GB RAM: We Read the Small Print Before Downloading 56 GiB
Everyone who has bought a car knows how to read a fuel-economy sticker. The number is real. It was...
One Site’s Google AI Opt-Out Test Estimated 23% of Search Clicks Came From AI Features
Google does not provide publishers with a separate click total for AI Overviews or AI Mode. That...
Benchmark scores say nothing about whether the release runs
On Nov 8 I went through a fresh speech-model release the way most people in that scene go through...
Reasoning models think in silence. Our job queue read silence as death.
One morning, our daily automated code review flagged a refactor we had just pushed. The finding fit...
Why JSON tool calling is breaking your agents (and how MCP Code Mode fixes it)
Standard tool calling looks great when your agent has three tools. You pass the JSON schemas in the...
Connecting Business AI Agents to Existing Systems: An Ontology-Inspired Prototype
Access to business data, and safe ways for agents to use it, receive a lot of attention. From my own...
What 84,800 local spans taught me about my coding agents and my local AI services
Token trackers tell you what your agents cost. They do not tell you why a child agent hung for ten minutes.
I dumped semantic i18n keys. Now the source text itself is the key — and LLMs do the rest.
The thing everyone does (and why we stopped) If you've ever built a non-trivial UI in a...
I built an AI field guide that works with the internet off, live on stream
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest 2026 DEV Challenge, Week 3: Slow and Steady. ...
My On-Call Agent Stopped Suggesting the Fix That Already Failed
Last time our database pool ran dry, an AI assistant told me to increase the connection pool. We had...
ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to the machines its agent runs on: your keys, its repos
The codex app-server inside ChatGPT Desktop ships a --forward-ssh-agent feature: your local SSH agent is shared into the agent's execution environment via a stable socket, so agent...
How I built long-conversation compaction for my desktop AI companion: at 36 messages, old turns become one 2,000-byte recap
Ankita AI is a desktop AI assistant by Krish Verma, and it has a memory problem every long chat hits:...
I put my cat in a Tiny Desk concert, and Cloudflare billed me for a container that wouldn't die
You've probably seen the clip. Charlie Wilson at the NPR Tiny Desk, singing "Outstanding", the camera...