Agents Made Rewrites Cheap to Type. Spolsky's 2000 Warning Was Never About Typing
Agents can retype a module in an afternoon. Joel Spolsky's rule against rewrites was about the bug fixes buried in old code. Pin those first.
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Context Rot: Why Your RAG Pipeline Degrades Without Anyone Deploying Anything
Nobody changed the model. Nobody touched the prompt. Accuracy dropped anyway. This is the most...
How to make link to SaaS Launch Video system
A screenshot can show what you built. A screen recording can show how it works. But making a short,...
Same GPU, Same Model, Different Cost per Token: Benchmark Qwen3.8-27B on Your Own Prompts
When I'm deciding whether to rent a GPU for an open model, I work out the cost per million output...
Vercel's agent-desktop Lets Coding Agents Click Native Apps Without Moving Your Mouse
agent-desktop 1.0.2 reads Finder, Slack or any app's accessibility tree as JSON and acts by ref, headless by default. What it can't see, and what to lock down.
Speculative Decoding vs Distillation: Two Ways to Buy Latency, One of Them Charges Quality
Both make a model answer faster. Only one changes what the model is. A cost-and-quality comparison for teams shipping latency-sensitive inference.
Give a bot a token without ever pasting it into the chat
Originally published at morgan-vale.blogspot.com. The quickest way to give an AI agent a token is to...
Compressed Cache vs Bigger Context: The Memory Bill Behind Long Conversations
Long context is sold as a feature and paid for as a memory bill. A cost-first look at why KV cache compression beats simply adding windows.
Prompt Integrity: We Stopped Letting the LLM Rewrite Your Prompts — Here's What Broke
The failure report that changed how we build goodesign is the kind you can reconstruct from almost...
I Let AI Type the Code and Lost the Map
For about three years, when a feature was done, we could close the file and still remember it. We...
Your Agent Never Committed. Snapshot Every Turn to a Git Ref, Then Bisect
Twenty agent turns, zero commits, red tests. A Claude Code Stop hook snapshots each turn to refs/agent-turns/, then git bisect finds the turn that broke it.
Preventing Redis Cache Stampedes from Bulk TTL Expiration: Implementation Patterns with TTL Jitter
Preventing Redis Cache Stampedes from Bulk TTL Expiration: Implementation Patterns with TTL...
El Pueblo de los Muertos — a village where nine AI spirits solve the case themselves
Someone stole a dead man's portrait — and in a village where being remembered is what keeps you real,...
I read every AI claim on 4,335 earnings calls. A keyword filter would have got most of them wrong
Apollo's chief economist argued in late October that AI has delivered "zero financial payoff" to...
I built a way to see a sunscreen's white cast on your own face before you buy it
A zinc sunscreen's label tells you how much zinc oxide is in it. It doesn't tell you how white it's...
Your Agent's ADD FOREIGN KEY Stalls Writes on Two Tables. NOT VALID, Then VALIDATE
ADD FOREIGN KEY takes a write-blocking lock on both tables while it scans. Reproduce it in Docker, then split it into NOT VALID and VALIDATE.
My DeepSeek Harness plugins as of Nov 26
Twelve open-source plugins and one companion service for DeepSeek Harness: artifacts, mail, phone, notes, voice and agent orchestration, built with AI coding agents under my direct...
In 2013 I wrote a diploma on elliptic curves. Last night my tool used them to check its own release.
TL;DR: In 2013 I wrote a university diploma on elliptic-curve cryptography, and it went into a...
7 real cases where ChatGPT and Claude got datasheet values wrong (and how to check them)
Disclosure: I build PartsPlan, the tool mentioned at the end. The cases below are real answers I...
Wiring Your AI Agent into a "Mycelium Network": A Zero-Dependency MCP Server in Production
Wiring Your AI Agent into a "Mycelium Network": A Zero-Dependency MCP Server in...
Review Agent Code in a GitHub PR, lazygit or Hermes? What Each One Can't See
A PR shows the branch, lazygit shows hunks, and neither knows which agent turn wrote a line. A fair look at three places to review agent code.
I Built a Programming Language Where Every Value Is an AI Agent
Every orchestration framework I used managed calls. None of them managed the organization. So I...
Criando um chat inteligente com React, .NET e Microsoft Foundry
Chat com React, API .NET 10 e o gpt-5.4-mini no Microsoft Foundry, com streaming via SSE, Entra ID sem chave e proteções para produção.