Your AI Feature Can Be Hijacked by the Text It Reads: Prompt Injection for Web Developers
You add an AI feature to your support tool. It reads each incoming ticket, writes a summary, and can...
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The fix for an empty state isn't filling it
Last week I argued my cost tool should ship with an empty price book. Seven people told me how to make that less painful. Here is what I'm taking, and the one idea I'm saying no to...
Open Source Didn't Ban AI Code. 83% of Its AI Policies Allow It, With One Catch
A study of 281 AI policies in top GitHub projects: 83.3% allow AI code, 14.9% forbid it. What they reject is the diff nobody read. Review before the PR.
Pair agent UI work with visual regression before you trust green CI
Unit tests pass. Typecheck is green. Playwright happy-path clicks through. The agent PR still ships a...
I capped my coding agent's tool output to save tokens. It used 2.65 times as many.
Claude Code token usage, measured: a 12,000-character cap on tool output took one answer from 267k to 708k billed input tokens. Why, and what 252 runs showed.
AI Isn't Coming for Your Job. It's Coming for Your Advantage
Let me start without anesthesia: I think we're facing one of the deepest shifts in the history of...
In my own words
You can't describe your own writing style. But you recognise it in a split second. How twelve messages on a table taught an AI agent to write to people in my voice.
I Cut Concurrency Latency by 60% in Production. Here is Why Single-User Speed Barely Moved at First.
This is the fourth series of the production LLM Systems and RAG of Vicquant. Step 1 was fixing the...
Google’s Q3 2026 Earnings Call Points to a More Agentic Future for Search
Google’s Q3 2026 earnings call offered a clearer view of how the company sees Search evolving: less...
My agent burned $31 in a week. I asked which tool ate it - so I built the receipt.
I can tell you my AI bill to the cent. Ask me which tool call caused it and I used to shrug. Last...
What Happens When Your AI Agent Fails Halfway Through a Ten-Step Task?
Your agent just booked a flight, reserved a hotel, and drafted the itinerary email. Then it crashed...
Slang Is a Dial: Training a 125M Language Model From Scratch on Free GPUs
How I built a language model from scratch on free GPUs: a measured register-conditioning idea, a dated lexicon and annotator, a lease-based training relay, a verified model stack, ...
Stigmergic coordination: the ant-inspired pattern that outperforms central orchestration at scale
I once watched a centralized orchestrator spend more time coordinating than producing. Fifty agents,...
I stopped sending JSON keys to my LLM 100 times. Here's what it saved (and where it didn't)
LWON is JSON with the keys written once. Benchmarks against JSON and TOON, accuracy evals on Claude, and an MCP proxy that applies it to any server.
I shipped 22 anime NFTs from a 4GB GPU — three things that cost me a full day
Three bugs that cost me a day building an ERC-721 + Seaport listing pipeline in Python.
The 'Mythos Leak' on Hugging Face Matches Seeded Noise. Its Loader Wants trust_remote_code
A 7.72 TB repo billed as an Anthropic Mythos checkpoint: every audited tensor regenerates from its name. Its README asks you to run its Python.
I kept correcting AI until I realised what was actually broken
You corrected the AI yesterday. Today, it made the exact same mistake again. Maybe it used an...
Structured AI output in Flutter: Gemini, OpenAI, Claude
Short answer: all three APIs can return JSON that matches a schema you send. Each wants the schema in...
Why Hashing Tool Calls Won't Catch Your Agent's Loops
If you run an agent unattended for long enough, you will meet the loop. It does not crash. It does...
Running AI agents in parallel: 6 failures and their fixes
For the last month I've been building a Mac app with several AI coding agents working in parallel....
How I built memory that stops repeating itself: dedup at 0.85, conflicts flagged, nothing deleted
My desktop companion remembers things about me. That is the whole point of it — until it remembers...
Why Does the Hair in My Malfoid AI Portrait Come Out Yellow or Grey Instead of Platinum? Colour in Image Pipelines, Plus a Script to Measure It
Written November 2, 2026 (18:00 CST, UTC+8). I build malfoidai.com, an independent studio that makes...
Keep the Gate, Downgrade the Recursion
Keep the Gate, Downgrade the Recursion Eight days of a first online A/B, and store-level...
The Newspaper of One: Inside a Lights-Out Publishing System
The Newspaper of One: Inside a Lights-Out Publishing System For most of publishing...