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AI2 days ago

Agent memory: how Claude repairs wrong notes with dreaming

Agent memory can preserve mistakes. Anthropic's transcript-backed dreaming repairs notes, while contract-page ownership and exact quotations protect facts.

#ai#claude#machinelearning
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AI2 days ago

How to Master AWS for AI?

Ciao Amici 👋 Every hiking trail in the Alps has a map at the trailhead. A good one shows you the...

#machinelearning#aws#ai
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AI3 days ago

There's a Pattern Hidden in Qwen3.5-0.8B's Neurons That Training Can't Explain

Qwen3.5-0.8B's Neurons Are Secretly Ranked TL;DR. The MLP neurons of Qwen3.5-0.8B appear...

#interpretability#llm#larp
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AI3 days ago

[Part 3] Your first steps in Computer Vision on AWS: deploying models for an ASL recognition app

This is the third and final part of the series "Your first steps in Computer Vision on AWS". If you...

#ai#computervision#asl
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AI3 days ago

Using Evil Spirits To Cast Out Evil Spirits!

Hey everyone 👋, This post is something I have been sitting on for a while, and I am finally writing...

#ai#llm#lmm
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AI4 days ago

An AI Testing Presentation Became the Final Push for Organizational Change at My Company

From a multi-agent testing experiment to a broader discussion about how engineering teams should...

#discuss#ai#programming
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AI4 days ago

Congrats to the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Winners!

A few weeks ago we teamed up with Kaggle to ask a deceptively simple question: how do you actually...

#devchallenge#kagglechallenge#ai
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AI4 days ago

Don't Write Markdown Files for Your Coding Agent. Write Scripts.

If you want agents to do what you want, you need to learn how to box them into deterministic actions....

#ai#programming#devops
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AI6 days ago

We're Building AI to Replace Ourselves. What's the Plan?

Weren't we supposed to be replaced by AI by now? Or at least work less? AI agents were supposed to...

#discuss#ai
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AI6 days ago

That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

Hacktoberfest 2026 wrapped up on October 31st! Thank you to everyone who built, hosted, mentored,...

#hacktoberfest#hf26challenge#opensource
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AI6 days ago

Rack Before You Remember

What racking wine teaches about agent memory The mead's lees on October 21, with the racking cane...

#ai#llm#architecture
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AI7 days ago

ML Development Isn’t Slow Because of Models. It’s Slow Because of Stakeholders

TL;DR: Most stalled ML projects aren’t stuck on modeling. They’re stuck on undefined success...

#machinelearning#ai#productivity
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AI7 days ago

I Built LLM Explained: 43 Interactive Pages That Take You From Tokens to AI Agents

I kept running into the same problem while learning about large language models. I'd read a blog...

#ai#showdev#machinelearning
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AI7 days ago

Prompt Pad: Frame Your Persona for Better AI Answers

Want better answers from AI? Start by telling it who to be. In this episode of Prompt Pad,...

#ai#promptengineering#llm
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AI7 days ago

I built a 3D game about my Nigerian childhood (and I'm not a game developer)

If you grew up in Nigeria, there is one sentence that can stop your heart in the middle of...

#gamedev#webdev#ai
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AI8 days ago

I hid instructions in my server logs to see which models would follow them

Every Monday, ExtraTime, my football quiz site, gets a health report written by a model. It reads the...

#ai#llm#security
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AI8 days ago

Your AI Agent Trusts Everything It Reads — A Field Guide to Hijacking Claude, GPT, Gemini & Copilot

A README file in your ~/Downloads folder should not be able to expose your SSH keys. A calendar...

#security#ai#llm
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AI9 days ago

All That Glisters Is Softmax: Shiny-Object Interns, Airplane-Magazine Execs, and Why AI Labs Can Only Bake In Half the Scars

Why do an eager intern with a Hacker News blog post, a C-level executive stepping off an airplane with an in-flight magazine, and a trillion-parameter LLM all walk straight into the exact same production bog? And why even Google DeepMind can only bake half of our 600 scars into model weights.

#ai#programming#architecture
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AI9 days ago

I Retested My MoE Offloading Benchmarks. Some of My Conclusions Changed.

A follow-up to my original 16GB GPU experiment, this time with consistent quantization, repeated...

#ai#machinelearning#llm
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AI9 days ago

Every Codebase Has a '// DO NOT TOUCH' File. I Built an AI Necromancer to Summon the Ghost of the Developer Who Wrote It 💀🔮

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#opensource
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AI10 days ago

A Two-Line Function Caught AI Collusion Better Than the AI Did

A few days back, I took part in the Apart Research sprint where our team worked on the AI collusion...

#ai#agents#airesearch
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AI10 days ago

Same Evidence, Different Judgment? A Small Experiment on Implied Conclusions and Evidence Ordering

GnomeMan4201 · Study: composed-inference-ordering-v1.1 · Collected October 31, 2026 UTC What I ran:...

#ai#machinelearning#rag
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AI10 days ago

Reverse Engineering Block Blast

Block Blast looks like a puzzle game. A decompile of the app suggests it's closer to a per-player ad...

#ai#discuss#machinelearning
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AI10 days ago

MoE Offloading Isn’t Always Faster: I Tested 5 Models on a 16GB GPU

I do a lot of experimenting with local language models, and I just ended up going down a bit of a...

#ai#machinelearning#llm
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AI11 days ago

I Tested 7 Crypto Models. The Best Signal Failed the Cost Test.

Seven crypto models, six walk-forward folds and a backtest audit show why predictive signal does not guarantee profits after modeled costs.

#machinelearning#python#crypto
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AI11 days ago

I Almost Paid ₹1,499 for Prime Video I Never Use. An Open-Source AI Model Caught It.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai
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AI11 days ago

No Human Will Ever Write Code Better Than LLMs? Better at What?

A tweet went around saying: "No human will ever write code better than LLMs. Accept this fact, stop...

#ai#programming#softwareengineering
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AI12 days ago

Ghost in the Shell: Can a Log File Hijack an AI?

This week's Hacktoberfest theme is Ghost in the Machine. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to...

#ai#security#halloween
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AI12 days ago

AI for everything besides coding

I went through ten weeks of my non-coding Claude chats to see if they saved me time. The best ones went past the question I typed.

#ai#claude#llm
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AI12 days ago

Why Your Agent Memory System Gets Beaten by Raw Retrieval

Over the past year, agent architectures have converged on a very specific kind of complexity. If an...

#ai#agents#machinelearning
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AI12 days ago

How to cut your AI agent's input tokens: what worked, what failed, and a bench to measure yours

Our AI agent paid 17,000 tokens before reading a single word. A production field report: how we measured, which cuts paid off, what failed, a 7-point checklist, and an open-source bench you can run on your own agent.

#ai#agents#python
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AI12 days ago

Four Ways a Test Can Lie to You

Green and worthless: what verifying one small application taught me, when an AI agent wrote most of...

#testing#ai#programming
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AI13 days ago

Should our LLM wiki use vector search? We benchmarked it before deciding

Every "add vector search" proposal comes with the same promise: users phrase questions their own way,...

#llm#agents#architecture
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AI13 days ago

Stratagems #32: The AI Logged a Withdrawal. P Took It as Proof.

Make empty what is already empty. Let doubt breed inside doubt. — The 36 Stratagems, The Empty Fort...

#ai#discuss#programming
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AI14 days ago

The Most Embarrassing Private Key in Web PKI History

The strange thing about this incident is that the certificates looked normal. They had familiar CA...

#security#webdev#devops
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AI14 days ago

I Tried To Own My Agent's Brain

Here is the exact exchange. The model is llama3.2:latest (3.2B, Q4_K_M), running locally through...

#ai#security#agents
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AI14 days ago

MCP Token Cost: I Cut My MCP Server From 15 Tools to 4

I rebuilt a real AWS cost-triage MCP server from 15 tools to 4. Same account, same question, 7 tool calls down to 2, schemas 88% smaller.

#mcp#aws#ai
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AI15 days ago

How Machines Find Meaning: The Math Behind Semantic Search

Understanding cosine similarity, Euclidean distance, and how machines find relevant text and...

#ai#machinelearning#search
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AI15 days ago

OpenAI Built an Offline Internet for Agents, and the Canary String Explains Why

OpenAI disclosed an isolated sandbox built on cached web snapshots to stop models from probing live infrastructure during reinforcement learning.

#ai#security#machinelearning
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AI15 days ago

When Wording Changes Image Safety: A GigaChat Red-Team Case Study

A disclosed and fixed image-generation issue, what a multilingual black-box test showed, and what it...

#ai#webdev#machinelearning
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AI16 days ago

Slow Post: planning five DEV posts took me 67 minutes, so now two open models do it while I sleep

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Slow and Steady. I set a timer...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai
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AI16 days ago

Let It Die: The Lazy Email Agent on TabPFN, Gemma and Temporal

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai
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AI16 days ago

Three Times My Test Failed and the LLM Was Right

A test fails, and the reflex is: the code is wrong. Debug the code, fix the code, move on. That...

#ai#programming#llm
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AI16 days ago

The Cost of Cutting the Cord

On October 23, OpenAI announced it would halt frontier model training on the live internet. Two weeks...

#ai#machinelearning#economics
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AI17 days ago

Hours, Not Weeks: How AI Rewrote the Clock of Software Security

The third week of October 2026 was a rough one for anyone who runs software on the internet. Two...

#security#ai#startup
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AI17 days ago

5 Steps on How to not loose at a hackathon?

In 1999, ten developers gathered to work on cryptographic frameworks, IPv6, and IPsec for OpenBSD, in...

#ai#programming#majorleaguehacking
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AI18 days ago

How to Make RAG Show Its Evidence: Claim Verification at 15M-Document Scale

Your retrieval demo is beautiful. You dropped a thousand PDFs into a vector database, wired up an...

#rag#ai#llm
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AI18 days ago

Building a Multimodal, Suggestion-Based AI Writing Coach with Gemini and Google Docs

When we use generative AI to proofread our daily writing—whether technical reports, business...

#ai#gemini#googleappsscript
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AI18 days ago

Building Disaggregated Inference with NVIDIA Dynamo

NVIDIA Dynamo is an open-source inference framework for deploying large-scale generative AI models...

#ai#llm#kubernetes
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AI18 days ago

Building a Llama.cpp Container Image

Llama.cpp is a high-performance inference platform designed for Large Language Models (LLMs) like...

#docker#llm#ai
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AI18 days ago

Nothing Reported It

Five ways my own test harness lied to me, and the one that nearly got published The number...

#ai#testing#programming
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AI19 days ago

One Dev, Four Specialists: My Agent Team for OpenCode 🧑‍💻

Overview Hey everyone 👋 For a long time my OpenCode workflow was one agent, one giant...

#ai#agents#llm
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AI19 days ago

"I'm 93% confident" is a string, not a probability

The gap between the demo and the pipeline In the demo, you ask the model to return a...

#ai#machinelearning#programming
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AI19 days ago

Your retry loop is your most expensive feature

A team I worked with tracked cost per task down to the token. They capped context. They set a budget...

#ai#machinelearning#architecture
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AI19 days ago

Don't Be a Proxy Between Me and Your AI

I've had this conversation more times than I'd like to admit. I raise a technical question in a...

#ai#discuss#career
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AI19 days ago

AI Made Coding Cheaper. So Why Is Building Software Still So Expensive?

I can generate a full authentication flow with a database schema, API routes, and unit tests in under...

#ai#productivity#career
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AI19 days ago

I Explored Respan Gateway: A Plugin-First, Open-Source LLM Gateway

Every time I connect an application to a new LLM provider, I run into the same problem: how much...

#ai#llm#opensource
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AI20 days ago

Small Language Models on Your Laptop: A Field Guide

Which small language models actually run on a laptop? Hardware-matched picks for 8GB, 16GB and 24GB machines, setup commands, and the honest limits.

#ai#machinelearning#smalllanguagemodels
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AI20 days ago

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai
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AI20 days ago

Mistral's Timestral is #1 by 0.003 MASE. I ran it — the model was not the variable.

Mistral released Timestral, four open-weight time-series models that top three benchmarks — by 0.003 MASE on their own table. I ran all three sizes against one-line baselines, on a known generator and on fresh Paris weather. With one summer of context the 209M lost to "repeat yesterday"; with three years it beat everything by a third — and the 20 MB model matched the 837 MB one.

#ai#python#machinelearning
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