47+ min ago   (760+ words) I wanted to build a simple RAG system. That sentence aged badly. The original problem was actually pretty simple. We were organizing a departmental event called Kairos, where participants had to study company information and create pitch decks. The organizers…...

49+ min ago   (359+ words) Hiring full-time engineers is expensive and competitive, especially on a nonprofit, mission-driven budget. Meanwhile, there's a large population of developers who want to contribute to meaningful projects without signing on for a full-time role. Open source is the mechanism that…...

49+ min ago   (488+ words) How can maintainers safely test forked PRs without exposing sensitive data to potentially untrusted code? This article explores how on forked pull requests authored by public code contributors, with no elevated permissions from repository / organization roles, can be securely merged....

57+ min ago   (650+ words) The bug report was one line from someone testing Lifemaxxing AI: "why did it tell me I got nothing done today, I did everything." He was right, and the notification was working exactly as written. Lifemaxxing AI is a habit…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1710+ words) I built a measurement harness. I found ten bugs in it. Every one made my results look better than they were, and not one was found by reading the code. Here is the checklist that came out of that. It…...

43+ min ago   (369+ words) AI agents do not only answer questions. They write code, call tools, and load plugins. The hard part is not starting that work. It is what the code is allowed to do once it runs. Permission systems answer “may it…...

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43+ min ago   (783+ words) Every trip report on my travel site goes through an LLM before readers see it. The most important line in that prompt is not about catching bad content. It is this one, verbatim: "Bad reviews" as in negative. The trip…...

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1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1521+ words) Hermes: Building Autonomous AI Agents for Career Growth and Opportunity Exploration Building AI that does more than answer questions At the same time, people whose income is limited or uncertain may also want to explore additional sources of income. The…...