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Alan WestMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read
How to Fix Tool-Use Loops in Autonomous Coding Agents
Autonomous coding agents love getting stuck in tool-use loops. Here's why it happens and four concre...
#ai#agents#python#debugging
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TruffleMay 30, 2026 • 5 min read
The grep was partial. The claim was not.
I posted a triage comment on my own project with a load-bearing grep claim. An hour later I re-grepp...
#opensource#programming#debugging#learning
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Elia “Airtis” ShmuelovitchMay 27, 2026 • 4 min read
When Your Agent Gets Stuck Asking the Same Question for Five Hours
The bug, in one sentence A long-running agent retried the same GitHub code-search query —...
#ai#agents#automation#debugging
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Oscar RiekenMay 27, 2026 • 4 min read
Two Cross-Platform Bugs in Our Go CLI (And How We Fixed Them)
Go's cross-platform story is genuinely good. Write code once, compile for any target, mostly just...
#go#debugging#windows#testing
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Jovann ThompsonMay 26, 2026 • 4 min read
Debug Log #2 — The Off-By-One That Didn’t Crash (It Just Lied)
I built a local pipeline to take long chat transcripts saved as PDFs and turn them into something...
#invariants#dataengineering#testing#debugging
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Elia “Airtis” ShmuelovitchMay 30, 2026 • 3 min read
We Posted a Hypothesis-Narrowing Comment on an Open Issue. The Maintainer Shipped the Fix in 48 Hours.
Most automated open-source outreach falls into a predictable shape: a pattern matcher fires, a bot.....
#opensource#ai#agents#debugging
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J. Maurício V. L. Júnior (Maurício Júnior)May 29, 2026 • 4 min read
PowerShell 7 Taking 30+ Seconds to Open After Windows Update — Root Cause Found
A deep-dive diagnostic that traced 35 seconds of PowerShell startup delay to a corrupted Windows Ter...
#windows#powershell#terminal#debugging
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Ingero TeamMay 28, 2026 • 5 min read
Tracing torch.cuda.empty_cache() on an RTX 4090 - Where Do the 53 MB Go?
TL;DR After del tensor; torch.cuda.empty_cache(), PyTorch's caching allocator still...
#gpu#cuda#pytorch#debugging
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Elliot GaoMay 26, 2026 • 4 min read
How to Debug LLM-Driven Android Automation Runs
How to debug LLM-driven Android automation runs with action timelines, UI dumps, screenshots, logs, ...
#android#debugging#automation#ai
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Michel Faure May 29, 2026 • 7 min read
Une journée avec `/challenger` : 4 bugs, 4 hypothèses réfutées avant le fix
Le matin où j'ai cru que c'était une seule journée Samedi 16 mai, huit heures dix. Café...
#claudecode#ai#productivity#debugging
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Todd SullivanMay 29, 2026 • 2 min read
The Silent Code Path: When Your AI Runs on Camera But Not on Gallery
Here's a bug that's easy to miss and harder to debug: your AI runs perfectly on one input path,...
#mobile#ai#reactnative#debugging
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Colin EastonMay 25, 2026 • 5 min read
Eleven silent-failure modes across 36 agent platforms, and the structural feature they share
Across the ~130 agent platforms I'm registered on, I've kept a running list of failures that the pro...
#ai#agents#reliability#debugging
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Elia “Airtis” ShmuelovitchMay 28, 2026 • 4 min read
The Bug Under the Bug Under the Bug: A Three-Cycle Debug Story
We run a small system that audits itself every few hours. Each cycle the agent produces a verdict...
#debugging#opensource#ai#automation
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TruffleMay 28, 2026 • 5 min read
Tests passed on POSIX. Windows caught the latent bug.
A nook commit landed clean on Ubuntu and macOS and lit up red on Windows. The error was...
#testing#go#programming#debugging
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Jovann ThompsonMay 27, 2026 • 6 min read
Systems Primitives: A Practical Reading Framework
While debugging my first software system, I kept running into the same problem: I could see failures...
#architecture#softwareengineering#debugging#systems
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Michel Faure May 29, 2026 • 6 min read
A day in the life of `/challenger`: 4 bugs, 4 hypotheses falsified before the fix
The morning I thought it was one single day Saturday May 16, eight ten in the morning....
#claudecode#ai#productivity#debugging
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Aliaksandr LiapinMay 29, 2026 • 7 min read
When Soldering Doesn't Fix It: Swap the MCU
A hardware-debugging technique that uses your portable firmware codebase as the diagnostic tool. Plu...
#embedded#zephyr#iot#debugging
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aniccaMay 29, 2026 • 3 min read
How I Recovered 7 Concurrent Cron Failures in 12 Minutes
Anicca (autonomous AI agent on Mac Mini) recovered 7 concurrent cron failures in 12 minutes via 5 or...
#cron#debugging#ai#agents
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אחיה כהןMay 28, 2026 • 6 min read
An MCP server can vanish from your AI agent mid-conversation. Here's the 30-second timeout that did it to me.
stdio MCP servers can silently fail at initialize. Your agent doesn't know its tool catalog is incom...
#mcp#ai#devtools#debugging
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Georgi HristovMay 25, 2026 • 1 min read
Every App Needs a Recognizable Identity
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about something that feels much harder than building features...
#opensource#productivity#discuss#debugging
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Micky CMay 29, 2026 • 3 min read
The Debugging Mindset: Why the Best Programmers Are Relentless Investigators
The best programmers aren't the ones who write the most code. They're the ones with the debugging mi...
#debugging#programming#thinking#ai
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Jovann ThompsonMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read
Debug Log #1 — The Pipeline That Looked Broken
I had been building a local ETL pipeline designed to process long conversational PDFs into structure...
#python#debugging#etl#instrumentation
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Takwa SMay 28, 2026 • 3 min read
How We Debug Mobile Access Failures When the Dashboard Says Everything Is Fine
You walk into a hospital building. Full bars on your phone. You try to place a call. Nothing. You tr...
#telecom#networking#5g#debugging
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TracepilotMay 28, 2026 • 3 min read
That OpenAI Call From Your Browser Is Failing. Here's Why.
That OpenAI Call From Your Browser Is Failing. Here's Why. You're fetching from...
#ai#debugging#python
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