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dev.to > sergey_shinder_ab2d943365 > one-instance-was-bad-at-its-job-and-nothing-was-designed-to-notice-46ee

One instance was bad at its job and nothing was designed to notice

35+ min ago   (786+ words) Checkout errors sat between three and eight percent for most of a Thursday. Not enough to page, because our threshold is one percent sustained across the service and the service was at 0.4. Enough that retries covered most of it and…...

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dev.to > sergueyasaelshinder > the-meter-is-running-on-every-request-2pc2

The Meter Is Running on Every Request

1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (338+ words) The demo cost four pence. You ran it thirty times while building it, glanced at the total, and stopped thinking about it, because four pence is not a number anybody worries about. Then it shipped, and the cost stopped being…...

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dev.to > seo-arcade-jeremy > ask-the-raw-llm-api-from-your-terminal-what-comes-back-is-junk-and-thats-the-point-5hh5

Ask the Raw LLM API From Your Terminal. What Comes Back Is Junk, and That's the Point

1+ hour ago   (695+ words) Martin McGarry's top tip: query the bare OpenAI or Gemini API, diff it against the chat product, and the delta shows you where retrieval fetches from. Plus RSS as the next llms.txt and the grace period spam drives through....

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dev.to > b2a48b > your-agents-tool-timed-out-did-it-create-the-job-3pgm

Your agent's tool timed out. Did it create the job?

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (701+ words) Your agent calls create_report_job("weekly"). The tool returns no response. Should the runner try again? The job might already exist. If the database committed but the acknowledgment never reached the runner, a second create call can enqueue a second job. If…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > two-required-components-had-no-design-at-all-and-the-numbering-hid-it-pjc

Two required components had no design at all, and the numbering hid it

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (516+ words) My requirements document lists ten layers by name. My source tree has directories numbered P0 through P9. Ten and ten. Coverage was being reported as nine of twelve units, which felt like ordinary unfinished work. Two of the ten layers had no…...

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dev.to > rick_houlihan_cf110dba340 > how-a-closed-loop-learning-engine-rebuilt-what-ai-knows-about-oracle-3jmg

How a Closed-Loop Learning Engine Rebuilt What AI Knows About Oracle

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (1270+ words) By Rick Houlihan — with Claude, my implementation partner, who did a lot of the building and most of... Tagged with ai, claude, llm, softwareengineering....

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dev.to > raju_dandigam > prompts-are-code-genkit-makes-the-runtime-reviewable-gh3

Prompts Are Code. Genkit Makes the Runtime Reviewable.

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (764+ words) A prompt can look perfect in a model playground and still fail as a product. The production input arrives in a different shape. Authentication data leaks into the prompt. The model returns prose where the UI expects JSON. A three-line…...

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dev.to > dobybaxter127 > ai-as-a-fluency-machine-what-software-engineering-taught-me-about-checking-a-models-answer-mgj

AI as a Fluency Machine: What Software Engineering Taught Me About Checking a Model's Answer

2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1409+ words) We refuse to install a dependency without a lockfile, a checksum, and a license audit. Then we paste a language model's answer straight into a model file and call it velocity. The scrutiny didn't disappear — it just stopped applying to…...

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dev.to > sarantoon > doop-aih-agent-waaddiiaichnbn-canvas-ediiywkabkhunaid-aetmiienguuenaikh-4h0o

Doop ให้ agent วาดดีไซน์บน canvas เดียวกับคุณได้ แต่มีเงื่อนไข

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (75+ words) โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | 13 กันยายน 2026 Doop เลือกทางที่ต่างออกไป คำอธิบายบน GitHub เขียนว่าเป็น "A multiplayer design canvas where humans and AI agents design together, live" [1] คน แก้ไขผ่านเบราว์เซอร์ ใน canvas ที่มี Frames ซ…...

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dev.to > samchenreviews > voice-ai-for-appointment-booking-build-a-vapi-elevenlabs-agent-that-books-slots-and-sends-2mge

voice ai for appointment booking: Build a Vapi + ElevenLabs Agent that books slots and sends reminders 24/7

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (591+ words) You can wire Vapi's speech-to-intent engine to ElevenLabs' neural text-to-speech, then glue the two together with an n8n workflow that talks to Google Calendar and Twilio. The result is a fully-automated "voice AI for appointment booking" that can take calls, create…...