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Here is a prompt that a lot of production apps send to an LLM today: Analyze the attached six months of transactions for John Smith, account 123456789. Identify unusual spending patterns. Say your provider offers zero data retention (ZDR) for the end

The short version In a large repository, keep Claude's context on the part of the code a task touches: unrelated instructions and file reads cost tokens and can degrade Claude's performance. Where you launch claude decides which files it can edit wit

The History of AI, Part 3 of 24. In Part 2, Alan Turing defined computation and asked whether machines could think. Now we meet the people who asked a different question: what if the brain itself is a kind of computer? This is where neural networks,

I often leave my desk with a long Claude Code task half done. Claude has a feature called remote control, which lets you drive a session from the Claude app. But claude remote-control must first start in a terminal on the right machine, in the right

To add a watermark to a video with FFmpeg, feed the logo as a second input, scale it relative to the video width, lower its alpha with colorchannelmixer , and place it with overlay using main_w / overlay_w expressions. Map the original audio with -ma

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Every RAG tutorial ends at the same place: chunk the documents, embed the chunks, insert the vectors, ask a question. That is day one. On day two someone edits a document, and nothing in the tutorial tells you what to do. This post walks through the

Project Context: This is Issue #13 of my ongoing implementation series for a Kafka-based distributed telemetry ingestion platform. The complete implementation and future iterations can be tracked here: Repository. This issue focuses on schema evoluti

Intro With all the noise about yet another shiny AI model, most of us completely missed a much bigger and more impactful announcement. Summer 2026 delighted us with Microsoft rolling out the TypeScript 7.0 RC. TypeScript, which was previously written

The Nextcloud Helm chart 9.4.1 packages Bitnami's PostgreSQL, MariaDB and Redis charts as optional subcharts, all switched off by default. Switched on, they run images from bitnamilegacy , a catalog Bitnami no longer updates. The chart can also use a

DeepSeek has opened the web search infrastructure behind its models to developers. Its new Search and Fetch APIs give agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications a way to find live web pages and turn them into model-ready context. Th

Most "prompt engineering" advice is about wording. The thing that actually changes agent behaviour is structure: what the document says, in what order, and how it tells the agent when to stop. This is the anatomy I keep coming back to. It is the shap

This article was created with the help of AI, working from the project's code and real test runs. The cover and the pictures of the cup are AI-generated on purpose. The screenshots come from a real run. A buyer says the cup arrived torn and sends a p

If yt-dlp prints No supported JavaScript runtime could be found , suddenly lists far fewer formats, or your distro's package broke on YouTube overnight, the fix is usually one install: Deno 2.3 or newer. yt-dlp now hands YouTube's player challenges t

Most Doom remasters rebuild the game. I wanted the opposite: keep the original 1993 engine running every rule, monster and door exactly as it was, and replace only what you see . The result is Relit . Press V at any moment and it flips between the or

Test offline UX by interrupting a real task, inspecting what the interface knows about the attempted change, and checking the resulting record after reconnecting. An offline banner alone cannot tell a reviewer whether a request never left the browser

A field note about a self-hosted mail server where nothing moved in or out for weeks - the one master.cf column almost nobody reads - and the four checks I now run before touching a single password. The first sign was not an error. It was silence. No

Steam Frame is now a top-5 Steam headset. Let's talk about building real scientific tooling for standalone VR. Per Road to VR, Valve's Steam Frame has been out a little over a month, is still heavily backordered, and has already landed as the fifth m

AutoGen users have a concrete maintenance warning: its current repository says the project is archived and Microsoft provides no security fixes there. Separately, John Langford says AI Frontiers, the Microsoft research group whose work included AutoG

An AI agent can select the right tool, receive a result, and still fail to complete its task. It might call the same tool repeatedly, retry an operation that keeps failing, or continue reasoning without making meaningful progress. The problem isn't a

The public API was the core of the bet from part 1: anything that can make an HTTP request should be able to schedule a post. Before opening it, I wrote down the ways that could go wrong. What can go wrong When people post through the app, a human lo

Learn how to debug an agent UI with AG-UI DevTools, a Chrome DevTools panel for AG-UI and LangGraph event streams. Introducing AG-UI DevTools When an agent run misbehaves, the Network panel shows you an opaque text/event-stream . And console.log only

A Friday release adds a friendly touch to a support chatbot. Greet customers by loyalty tier. Give a Gold member a more personal welcome before answering their question. The answer still looks reasonable. The order status is correct. Nobody changed t

Organizing an on-call rotation sounds like a spreadsheet and a duty roster. In reality, it is one of the leadership tasks that show most clearly how seriously a team takes the word “fairness”. Word gets around about who gets called at night, who bloc

Most people approve crypto transactions blind. A site says "Claim your airdrop!", the wallet pops up, you click Approve ... and hope. Wallet drainers count on that. One common Solana trick doesn't even "send" your tokens. It quietly hands ownership o