1+ min ago  (367+ words) A 1 M-token window is not mainly about writing longer prompts. It is about changing the default unit of work. Instead of splitting a codebase into tiny fragments and hoping retrieval gets the right pieces back, you can keep a much…...

just now  (161+ words) Supply-chain attacks via npm are up year-over-year " packages like event-stream, the Lazarus group drops, and AI-hallucinated typosquats keep landing in real codebases. I got tired of finding out after the fact, so I built NPM Safety Guard. It scans your…...

3+ min ago  (951+ words) Part 1 built the knowledge base. Part 2 handled chunking. The first version of the system used text-embedding-ada-002 for retrieval " Open AI's most mainstream embedding model at the time. The first instinct was to tune the similarity threshold: drop from 0. 85 to 0. 75? To…...

14+ min ago  (888+ words) [Excerpted from THE QUANTUM COLLAPSE CHRONICLES " not science fiction, but a grounded forecast of what may come when quantum computation dismantles the cryptographic foundations of our digital civilization. These articles explore the collapse of computational trust and the brutal reconstruction…...

14+ min ago  (259+ words) I kept switching between 5+ different sites just to count tokens, estimate API costs, plan context windows, and format JSON. So I built Dev Kit AI " a free collection of 17 tools specifically for LLM API workflows. Link: https: //devkit-ai. com Key…...

14+ min ago  (520+ words) You write a scraper with Playwright, wait for the page to load, close the cookie banner, click a filter, and parse a table out of the DOM. Then someone redesigns the page and your selector breaks. The annoying part is…...

14+ min ago  (498+ words) The original limiter was the one everybody writes first, because it is three lines of Redis and it mostly works: Every request increments a counter named after the current window bucket. When the counter exceeds the limit, requests are rejected…...

9+ min ago  (144+ words) One thing I'm still trying to reason about with Codex is when a run should be stopped rather than allowed to keep spending context, steps, and time. Some failures are obvious: repeated test failures, the same edit being attempted multiple…...

14+ min ago  (728+ words) I've been scraping data from the web for years. You'd think I'd have learned by now: never use regex on HTML. But sometimes, when you're staring at a messy table with inconsistent classes, random whitespace, and nested elements that barely…...

23+ min ago  (540+ words) "How would you scale a web application from 100 users to 100 million users?" The answer is rarely a single technology. Instead, systems evolve through multiple stages, with each stage solving a specific bottleneck. This article walks through the typical evolution of…...