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The Model Scored 30%. The Harness Scored 100%. Which One Did You Benchmark?

Sergei ParfenovAug 24, 2026 • 10 min read

The Model Scored 30%. The Harness Scored 100%. Which One Did You Benchmark?

Four harnesses took the same public ARC-AGI-3 set from 13% to 100% without touching a single weight....

#ai#llm#agents#machinelearning

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Your AI Has a Reviewer. Has Anyone Ever Seen It Say No?

Heinrich Neb4d ago • 10 min read

Your AI Has a Reviewer. Has Anyone Ever Seen It Say No?

Two weeks ago I counted 204 guards in my repos and found that 89 % had never been shown they can...

#ai#agents#discuss#programming

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The Tests Passed. The Contract Was Wrong.

Self-Correcting SystemsAug 24, 2026 • 7 min read

The Tests Passed. The Contract Was Wrong.

In June a reviewer on DEV who goes by @anp2network told me to stop storing a conclusion. I had a...

#ai#testing#architecture#agents

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Vector Search Is Still the Memory Layer Agents Actually Need

Ben Greenberg4d ago • 4 min read

Vector Search Is Still the Memory Layer Agents Actually Need

When I was working on Vector Search with JavaScript, vector search was a hot topic. By the time the ...

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I Built an AWS DevOps AI Agent Using Kiro Crew + MCP

Sarvar NadafAug 24, 2026 • 16 min read

I Built an AWS DevOps AI Agent Using Kiro Crew + MCP

Kiro Crew + AWS DevOps Agent over MCP = autonomous incident detection, investigation, and fixes. One...

#agents#ai#showdev#devops

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I Tried to Prompt-Inject My Own Agent Engine. It Didn't Work. Here's Why.

Debashish GhosalAug 25, 2026 • 12 min read

I Tried to Prompt-Inject My Own Agent Engine. It Didn't Work. Here's Why.

This is article 5 in a series about building PlannerCritic, an open-source engine where one LLM...

#ai#agents#security#llm

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How a Strands agent took Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 99.95% on ARC-AGI-3

Morgan Willis3d ago • 7 min read

How a Strands agent took Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 99.95% on ARC-AGI-3

AI’s most fervent and optimistic promoters promise a future where AI is innovating its way out of...

#ai#agents#aws#programming

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The Planner Made the Same 3 Mistakes Every Time. A Bigger Model Didn't Fix It.

Debashish GhosalAug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

The Planner Made the Same 3 Mistakes Every Time. A Bigger Model Didn't Fix It.

This is article 3 in a series about building PlannerCritic, an open-source engine where one LLM...

#ai#agents#llm#testing

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Remo H. Jansen3d ago • 6 min read

Developers that brand AI as slop will be left behind

A few days ago I shared an architectural proposal for InversifyJS on Reddit. It outlined an IPC-base...

#ai#agents#opensource#career

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Your Agent Doesn't Have a Reasoning Problem, It Has a Memory Problem

Anannya Roy ChowdhuryAug 24, 2026 • 9 min read

Your Agent Doesn't Have a Reasoning Problem, It Has a Memory Problem

*Part 2 of "Multi-Agent Systems in Production: What They Don't Tell You", a four-part series...

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My agent mesh could coordinate. It couldn't introduce itself. So I added A2A.

Don Johnson5d ago • 10 min read

My agent mesh could coordinate. It couldn't introduce itself. So I added A2A.

I added A2A to SMESH, my decentralized Rust agent framework. Here is the boundary, the tested gatewa...

#ai#agents#architecture#distributedsystems

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I Gave Claude Code a Brain. This Time I Let the Tests Judge It.

Giulio D'ErmeAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

I Gave Claude Code a Brain. This Time I Let the Tests Judge It.

The first experiment measured whether Claude Code knew the right answer. This one measured whether.....

#ai#agents#programming#productivity

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Antonio Moruno Gracia6d ago • 6 min read

Software Development After AI

I recently read The Nature of Software Development by Ron Jeffries, a book originally published in.....

#ai#software#agile#agents

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The M5 Ultra Mac Studio: I Did the Math So You Don't Have To

ArshTechPro6d ago • 7 min read

The M5 Ultra Mac Studio: I Did the Math So You Don't Have To

Apple announced the new Mac Studio this morning — M5 Max and the first-ever M5 Ultra. Pre-orders are...

#ai#programming#mobile#agents

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I Tested Rails Baseline by Leaving Architecture Out of the Prompt

Rob Race3d ago • 7 min read

I Tested Rails Baseline by Leaving Architecture Out of the Prompt

Note: Rails Baseline is the production-ready Rails foundation I tested here. It gives a new SaaS...

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The People Building AI Are the Worst at Predicting It

NourAug 22, 2026 • 6 min read

The People Building AI Are the Worst at Predicting It

I graded 18 dated AI predictions from the last two years against what actually happened. The...

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Ponytail: the AI coding skill that makes your agent write less code

ArshTechPro3d ago • 5 min read

Ponytail: the AI coding skill that makes your agent write less code

You ask your AI agent for a date picker. It installs flatpickr, writes a wrapper component, adds a....

#ai#agents#opensource#webdev

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False Green: My Incident Agent Said “Healthy” Without Live Evidence

Michael NeangAug 24, 2026 • 7 min read

False Green: My Incident Agent Said “Healthy” Without Live Evidence

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. The pipeline.....

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I Tried the Mysterious Ox Alpha Model. Then I Fell Down the Rabbit Hole of Who Actually Made It.

Jessica DoeringAug 24, 2026 • 5 min read

I Tried the Mysterious Ox Alpha Model. Then I Fell Down the Rabbit Hole of Who Actually Made It.

A few days ago, a new AI model quietly appeared on OpenRouter. Its name is Ox Alpha. Nobody...

#ai#agents

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The honest boundary of argument-space verification — and what the Evidence Locker adds

zxpmailAug 24, 2026 • 6 min read

The honest boundary of argument-space verification — and what the Evidence Locker adds

Five scenarios establish C3's catch rate at 4/5 against referent mismatch, and show why the remainin...

#ai#llm#agents#testing

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One directory is the task manager my agents share

Alkis YuvAug 23, 2026 • 3 min read

One directory is the task manager my agents share

A queue of plain markdown files coordinating humans and machine agents, with acceptance tests and ev...

#ai#agents#automation#workflow

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Open Knowledge Format vs RAG: Why Your Agent Should Read a Wiki

Jay @ DesignlyAug 23, 2026 • 9 min read

Open Knowledge Format vs RAG: Why Your Agent Should Read a Wiki

Open Knowledge Format vs RAG: why a markdown wiki beats vector search for facts your agent already k...