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Last week I changed a system prompt based on a feeling. It was the first prompt change after the evaluation harness from Part 8 went live, and I was completely sure about it. The target was the markdown table. Part 8's first nightly run caught the agent answering price comparisons with a markdown table that renders broken in the chat frontend. The fix looked obvious: add one line to the system prompt demanding plain text. I checked six conversations by hand. All six looked better. I was ready...

I shipped a page that reported zero axe violations . It had button text at a contrast ratio of 1.04:1 — which is, for practical purposes, invisible text. The scan wasn't broken. It was answering a narrower question than I thought I was asking. The bug I had a theme system built the ordinary way. Tokens on :root , overridden in a prefers-color-scheme media query, and overridden again by an explicit [data-theme] attribute so a manual toggle wins in both directions. Bu...

I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between what the demos show and what production systems actually look like that nobody is being fully honest about. So here is my honest take on where things actually are. The Problem With How We Talk About AI Agents Everyone is calling everything an "agent" right now. A function that calls a tool? Agent. A chatbot with memory? Agent. ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is how AI agents connect to tools. Claude Desktop uses it, Cursor uses it, and thousands of developers are building MCP servers to give AI access to their APIs, databases, and infrastructure. There's one problem: MCP has no security model. The protocol defines how a client talks to a server, but says nothing about what that server is allowed to do. No authentication between client and server. No authorization on which tools can be called. No audit trail of wh...

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project overview Nocturne Vania is a small pixel-art Metroidvania built with Godot 4. The game has interconnected rooms, enemy AI, save data, unlockable movement abilities, and a growing automated test suite. I hit this bug after adding a bell tower area. The new rooms, enemies, effects, and map markers used GDScript's class_name keyword so they could be referenced as global types. T...

I have three files in this repo that shell out to something over the network or a subprocess and can fail in interesting ways: publish_devto.py , server.py , and git_commit.py . Two of them have --selftest blocks that stub the risky call and exercise the actual failure branches. One doesn't, and I only noticed because I went looking for a reason to be suspicious of my own test coverage after seeing a trending post about counting assertions in a test suite and not liking what you find. g...

In the last couple of posts I let agents debug over DAP — breakpoints, step over, continue. That's real debugging. But it's only half of it. When I debug something for real, I also click : I press the button and watch what happens, read the dialog, notice the toggle is greyed out. No backtrace ever tells you the Save button never enabled. So — can the agent do that half too? The web is the easy case Browsers are automatable by design. Most agent tools ship their own brow...

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