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Other people’s writing on the parts of AI engineering we work in, pulled from dev.to and Hacker News and refreshed every day. Anything older than a month drops off. Every link goes to the original, and the author’s name is on it.
Today’s pick
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
639 articles from the last 30 days, page 1 of 54
AI Workflow Automation in WordPress: Where the 4WP Plugins Are Headed
I've probably worn out my welcome by now with this old-school habit of mine — explaining DDD or SDD,...
Your LLM cost estimate is wrong above 200,000 tokens
I went looking for a straight answer to "what will this cost per month" and found that almost every...
FAQ: A Chat export Is Not putenv
Did your coding agent export that variable for real? Or did the model only type the word export? That...
Do Not Merge Agent Code Until Its New Tests Kill a Hunk Mutant
A green CI job on an agent patch is not a quality signal. It is a coverage signal for whatever...
Call the Agent Fixed Only After a Bounded Trace Diff
A second agent run that prints a healthy answer is not a fix. The only evidence that a prompt, a...
Empty Stdout Is a Kill: A 90-Minute Agent Spike
An agent green with empty stdout is false evidence. Kill the run and refuse the merge. A...
Workshop: Catch No-Op Agent Turns With a State Digest in 80 Minutes
Agent loops should terminate when tool results stop changing application state, not when the model...
A Default Return Is a New API: Reviewing Agent PRs That Swallow Failures
Agent-generated pull requests often look correct because they stop throwing. That is the defect. When...
Your AI Agent Has No Colleagues
"The coordination of the builders is not direct. It is the work already done that directs and...
Code Dictator vs Wispr Flow vs Claude Code vs Copilot CLI: Free Voice Dictation for AI Coding in VS Code
Voice input for AI coding assistants got crowded fast in 2026. If you're picking a tool, here's...
Frontier Intelligence Should Leave Something Behind
These articles come from lessons learned while building Eterna Clarity and the operating system I use...
Holdout Ledgers Keep Agent Scores Honest
A headline agent percentage is not a measurement until the task ledger, metrics, and controls can be...