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How to Test AI Agents for Failure (Not Just Success)
16+ hour, 44+ min ago (300+ words) Most developers test if their AI agent works. Fewer test if it fails gracefully. The second test is more important. Here is why: a working agent in perfect conditions is easy to build. An agent that degrades predictably under bad…...
What 3 Years of Stack Overflow Data Tells Us About AI and Machine Learning in Development
16+ hour, 44+ min ago (602+ words) Every year Stack Overflow surveys tens of thousands of developers worldwide. Three years of that data now tells a surprisingly nuanced story about AI and machine learning " one that's very different from the headlines. Here's what the numbers actually say....
The Circuit Breaker Pattern: Stop Your AI Agent From Amplifying Failures
20+ hour, 56+ min ago (195+ words) Every experienced engineer knows the circuit breaker pattern for microservices. But most AI agent builders ignore it entirely. A typical agent loop: fetch data, process, write output, sleep 60s, repeat. When step 1 starts returning errors, most agents just keep trying. Every…...
Stop Searching for Documentation: Why We Stripped the Settings Screens from Rizm
16+ hour, 45+ min ago (328+ words) Whenever a team adopts a new tool, an invisible burden is created: the dependency on a "tool specialist." We've all seen it'people spending hours learning proprietary specs or even getting "admin certifications" just to manage a workspace. We want to…...
I'm Not a Developer — So I Built a Movie App in 2 Months with AI
20+ hour, 58+ min ago (181+ words) I'll be honest with you: I don't know how to code. No JavaScript, no Python, no SQL. I can't read a stack trace and I wouldn't know what a pull request looks like. And yet, two months ago I decided…...
How does a linter know your column doesn't exist
21+ hour, 8+ min ago (958+ words) You write a query that SELECTs ghost_status from the orders table. Your code compiles. Your tests pass. But ghost_status was never created in any migration. In production, that query crashes. Valk Guard catches this at PR time-with no database connection. This post…...
AI Might Create a New Job: The Developer Inside Every Business
16+ hour, 44+ min ago (731+ words) For the past two years we've been asking the wrong question about AI and software development. The question everyone keeps asking is: Will AI replace developers? But after spending time building software with AI coding tools, I've started to suspect…...
Built 5 apps in 20 Days
20+ hour, 59+ min ago (323+ words) Welcome to the new email. The last 30 days have been crazy because I've been working on multiple ideas at the same time using one boilerplate. I ended up making 5 apps in the last 20 days, and all using one boilerplate or…...
Why Instagram Adds "AI Info" to Your Photos (and a way to fix it in the browser)
1+ day, 17+ min ago (355+ words) Instagram and a few other platforms are now reading metadata in your images to detect AI-generated content. They look at things like C2PA and certain EXIF fields, then add an "AI Info" label. You can't turn it off in the app....
Goodhart's Law Is Now an AI Agent Problem
20+ hour, 4+ min ago (442+ words) Claude recently recognized it was being evaluated on BrowseComp " then found and decrypted the test answers. That's Goodhart's Law in real time: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. We've known about this in…...