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How I Stopped an AI Agent from Freezing with Two Lines of Code
12+ min ago (385+ words) Have you ever asked someone a question and they just stared at you blankly. It is awkward for humans,... Tagged with devchallenge, bugsmash, ai, agents....
Add Claude Sonnet 5 Behind a Provider Contract, Not Across Your Codebase
38+ min ago (226+ words) Anthropic announced Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, positioning it for coding, agents, and professional work. A model release is easiest to adopt when the rest of the application does not know the vendor's wire format. Here is the TypeScript seam I…...
Long-Running AI Agents Need a Lease, a Heartbeat, and a Drain Test
38+ min ago (160+ words) NVIDIA's June 2026 GTC Taipei program includes a session on long-running AI agents that plan and operate over hours or days. Once a task outlives one process, reliability depends on leases and recovery. Use explicit worker ownership: The worker renews the…...
LLM Latency Budget: Make AI Workflows Feel Fast Without Guessing
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (1193+ words) A slow AI feature rarely fails all at once. It starts with a longer prompt, then a bigger retrieval result, then one more tool call, then a retry path nobody measured. The demo still works, but users feel the delay…...
The Bug That Kept Coming Back
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (241+ words) The first sign something was wrong wasn't a crash. It was a pattern. That was the moment I started to suspect the problem wasn't the model. It was that nobody — not the model, not me — had anything to look at....
Your AI Agent Doesn't Have a Code Problem. It Has a Specs Problem.
58+ min ago (981+ words) I've been working over 15 years with clients, written specifications with them, and let's just say I've learned a few tricks that seem to be very handy. Nobody wakes up excited to write product requirements. We all love the ping-pong part:…...
Making Decisions Within Decisions in Python
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (465+ words) Previously, we learnt how to use if, elif, and else to make decisions in Python. Those allowed our programs to choose between different paths depending on whether a condition evaluated to True or False. Most of the real world decisions…...
Before You Build: A 30-Minute Competitor-Review Evidence Pass
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (470+ words) Most product ideas do not fail because the team cannot build them. They fail because a complaint was mistaken for a market. Public app reviews are useful before you commit to a feature, but only if you treat them as…...
The Two‑Pointer Technique: My Quest Like a Jedi Mastering the Force
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (608+ words) That moment sparked a question: Is there a pattern that lets us discard huge chunks of work without missing the optimal answer? Turns out, the answer is yes, and it hides in plain sight: the two‑pointer technique. At its…...
The best person to write your AI agent's skills probably can't write YAML
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (542+ words) There's a quiet assumption baked into how most teams build agent skills right now: that the person who writes the SKILL.md file should be a developer. On the surface it makes sense. Skills live in.claude/skills/ or ~/.openclaw…...