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A question on Discord found two bugs in my RAG system. Fixing them found a third.
15+ min ago (611+ words) Every test passed. The tests had the same blind spots as the code. A developer saw Ossian's MCP... Tagged with rag, kafka, ai, opensource....
The Hard Problem Isn't Automation. It's Classification.
14+ min ago (795+ words) James Coombs is a design engineer who built an AI-assisted bug pipeline that ships full-stack fixes across backend, API, and frontend layers in production. An "error handling improvement" that touches C# backend, GraphQL schema, and React frontend required 5 hours and…...
Building NICHLYST: The 14-Day Clock, the "Web App" Illusion, and Hardening the Archive
29+ min ago (463+ words) On September 10th, at 10:19 AM, the system finally turned green. Twelve confirmed, opt-in testers. The threshold is met. The 14-day Google Play closed testing clock is officially locked. For the next two weeks, NICHLYST sits in a state of anabiosis. My…...
My release smoke test passed on the message that says it failed
34+ min ago (607+ words) Here is the step, as it had been since the first release: Read the last line on its own. It passes when the released version appears anywhere in the output. Now read what npm prints when the version is not…...
Software Engineering Isn't Dead (We're Just Writing Specs Now)
36+ min ago (323+ words) "Software Engineering is programming integrated over time." AI is insane at churning out code... Tagged with ai, programming, softwareengineering, productivity....
Reciprocal Tester Exchange vs Marketplace: Which Works?
28+ min ago (1184+ words) When I was trying to publish my first Android app on a personal developer account created after November 13, 2023, I ran straight into Google Play's 14-day testing rule. Google requires personal accounts to have at least 12 opted-in testers who keep the…...
tracehub-mcp: Giving AI Assistants a Real Query Interface Into Your LLM Traces
26+ min ago (102+ words) The Copy-Paste Problem Here's what debugging an LLM application looks like for most... Tagged with aiengineering, mcp, observability, opensource....
My duplicate-code detector flagged the check I had just written. I deleted the duplication, not the rule.
20+ min ago (415+ words) A detector in my build looks for repeated code shapes. It caught a ten-line window shared between two checks that I had written deliberately, days apart, believing them to be different. They were not different. They were the same shape…...
Best.NET Obfuscators in 2026: Top 5 Comparison
26+ min ago (285+ words) There's a rite of passage for anyone who sells.NET software. One afternoon you drop your own DLL... Tagged with dotnet, csharp, security, comparison....
It passed CI. It passed your evals. The customer still got the wrong answer.
35+ min ago (771+ words) Your AI agent returned a 200, passed its faithfulness check, and still answered the wrong question. The evidence that explains why lives in the trace....