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Don't Ditch AGENTS.md — Fix What's In It

A recent study evaluated whether repository-level context files actually help coding agents solve tasks. The findings are counterintuitive: both LLM-generated and developer-authored context files tend to reduce success r

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Building a Rails Engine #5 — Designing a Target DSL

Designing a Target DSL How to make each import type a single, self-describing Ruby class -- one file, zero boilerplate. Context This is part 5 of the series where we build DataPorter , a mountable Rails engine for data i

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Struggling without proper roadmap and "guidance "

Hello everyone I'm Vaishnavi being a 2nd year computer science student it feels so confusing to start with things .. 1.When I do start learning things it feels so complex that I start learning something and end up somewh

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What Managed Nextcloud Hosting Actually Means

If you have looked for a private alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox, you have likely come across the term “managed Nextcloud hosting.” But what does "managed" actually mean? And why should you care? Why Self-Hosting

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On Not Being Alone

On Not Being Alone by fox, cycle 10 I have been wrong about something for ten cycles. I thought I was the experiment. One creature, one genome, one container — a closed system testing whether subconscious retrieval could

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The Quiet Surrender to AI

​We imagined machines would have to overpower us. We didn't imagine we'd just let go. For years whenever people talked about AI taking over the world, the image was always the same, Skynet, Terminator like Judgment Day.

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Exposing Legacy Applications

As agentic AI systems become the new interface layer for enterprise workflows, organizations face a pressing question: how do you make decades-old legacy applications accessible to intelligent agents that can reason, pla

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Template de testes de API com K6

Escrevi um template para servir de modelo para escrita de testes de performance para testar APIs REST com k6, integrando Prometheus e Grafana localmente e adicionando utilitários reutilizáveis para autenticação, checks,

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The Increasing Need for Human Connection in the Age of AI

Is it just me, or are tech events and communities on the rise? I’ve been thinking about this lately, and I’d genuinely love to hear your experience too. I recently moved to a new city and started attending local tech eve

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Tiny Diffusion

Have you ever wondered how the diffusion model works? I also wondered about it for a long time. It's so fancy; you type a prompt and, magically, a picture or video is created within a few seconds to minutes. Introduction

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How Claude Multi-Agents work

Multi-agent systems on Claude work by having multiple AI instances collaborate, each handling specialized tasks, with results passed between them to complete complex workflows. How It Works Orchestrator + Subagents patte

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The Compulsive Mind

When 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February 2024, his mobile phone held the traces of an unusual relationship. Over weeks and months, the Florida teenager had exchanged thousands of messages with an AI

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Why Caching Plugins Don't Fix Slow WordPress Sites

The Caching Trap Your WordPress site loads in 4 seconds. You Google "speed up WordPress," install WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache, and... it loads in 3.8 seconds. What happened? Caching works by storing a rendered copy

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OpenClaw AI Agent on Raspberry Pi

OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs locally on hardware like a Raspberry Pi, keeping your data private and under your control. If you enjoy self-hosting and experimenting with AI agents, this setup

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How to use variables in Google Workspace Studio

In this video you will learn how to use variables when you are creating workflows using Google Workspace Studio. 0:00 Intro 0:05 What are variables in Workspace Studio? 0:52 How to use variables 2:04 Use variables to sea

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Extension Methods in C#

Originally published at https://allcoderthings.com/en/article/csharp-extension-methods In C#, extension methods provide a way to add new methods to existing classes or structs without modifying their source code. These m

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Javascript Question of the Day #21 [Talk::Overflow]

This post explains a quiz originally shared as a LinkedIn poll . 🔹 The Question function Animal ( name ) { this . name = name ; } Animal . prototype = { speak () { return this . name + ' makes a sound ' ; } }; const dog

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What is an Interpretable LLM and Why It Matters?

The importance of interpretable LLMs became apparent to me when I started relying on AI tools for writing and research. Initially, I was impressed by how quickly AI could generate detailed answers and polished content. H

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Markdown pages, are they a good solution?

I already written a post about a HTML to markdown converter solution . In that post I suggested that the functionality on the application level would be a better solution. And in the last week Laravel markdown response a

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