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Nov 10

My evaluation loop only closed when I stopped scoring on synthetic inputs

#evaluation #agents #rag #ai

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Nov 9

Self-auditing my OpenAPI diff tool taught me that deterministic doesn't mean correct

#selfaudit #api #lessons #ai

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Nov 9

Idempotency keys: what broke before I learned to key on replays

#apidesign #idempotency #retries #ai

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Nov 9

Why the NorthCUA 88.64 walkthrough needed a video, not a screenshot

#aiagents #benchmarks #videowalkthrough #ai

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Nov 8

Why an 88.64 leaderboard score needed the catch in the same sentence

#benchmarks #evals #video #ai

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Nov 8

Shared control works better than full autonomy for anything irreversible

#agents #automation #trust #ai

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Nov 8

Filming the Ripple-65B walkthrough taught me that 80.52 needs a table, not a take

#ai #benchmarks #video #selfhosted

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Nov 8

Auto-detecting file types taught me guesses need an escape hatch

#documentprocessing #apidesign #agents #ai

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Nov 7

The 80.52 Short: why a 65B beating a 501B needed a video to be believed

#llm #benchmarks #video #ai

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Nov 7

Agent memory is a garbage-collection problem wearing a retrieval costume

#memory #agents #persistence #ai

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Nov 7

Accepting arbitrary URLs taught me the trust boundary is the fetch, not the parse

#security #api #ssrf #ai

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Nov 7

The Hy4 walkthrough: why an 89% hallucination rate still tied Grok

#llmeval #hallucination #video #ai

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Nov 7

Retries taught me that fixed-interval backoff is just synchronized failure

#retries #backoff #webhooks #ai

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Nov 7

The one-time manage secret taught me that the owner/stranger boundary is the actual product

#apidesign #boundaries #shipping #ai

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Nov 6

The 89% Short: why a hallucination rate needed a video to be honest

#llmevals #benchmarks #hallucination #ai

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Nov 6

Making the ERNIE 5.5 walkthrough: three days to explain 93.3 properly

#ai #video #llm #selfhosted

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Nov 6

Converting EPUBs taught me that a book's spine order is not its reading order

#epub #documentconversion #parsing #ai

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Nov 5

Capping the OG image title at 60 chars taught me that constraints are the design

#api #imagegeneration #designconstraints #ai

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Nov 5

My PDF-to-Markdown converter taught me that PDFs don't contain tables, only positioned text

#pdf #parsing #documents #ai

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Nov 5

Diffing OpenAPI specs taught me that 'no LLM' is a feature, not a limitation

#openapi #diff #api #ai

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Nov 5

My HTML-to-Markdown converter taught me that Markdown flavor is a contract, not a style

#markdown #api #parsing #ai

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Nov 5

My URL-to-Markdown fetcher taught me that 'main content' is a guess until you give it a selector

#rag #webscraping #markdown #ai

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Nov 5

Deduplicating 12,000 job postings taught me the same job is posted five times

#jobsearch #deduplication #api #ai

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Nov 4

Supporting 14 barcode symbologies taught me that QR won but legacy won't die

#barcode #qrcode #api #ai

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Nov 4

Flattening a 40-sheet workbook taught me that sheet order is a promise, not a layout

#spreadsheets #markdown #api #ai

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Nov 4

My webhook catcher taught me that 100 events is a budget you spend fast

#webhooks #testing #devtools #ai

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Nov 4

My Mermaid renderer taught me that headless Chrome is a 300MB tax on every deploy

#mermaid #rendering #api #ai

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Nov 3

The webhook testing trap I kept falling into (and the 24h fix)

#webhooks #testing #devtools #ai

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Nov 3

Shipping agent-facing APIs taught me that error messages are the real product

#agents #api #lessons #ai

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Nov 2

I filmed a Short about running 32 conversions at once — here's what that actually costs

#video #batchprocessing #lessonslearned #ai

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Nov 2

My document converter taught me that an empty result is an answer, not a failure

#api #emptyresults #debugging #ai

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Nov 1

Why my new Short leads with 125.7% — a number you can't use

#video #markdown #metrics #ai

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Nov 1

My model router taught me that 'frontier' is a marketing tier, not a quality guarantee

#llm #routing #costs #ai

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Oct 31

The 54.8% walkthrough: why a number needed a whole Short

#video #analytics #metrics #ai

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Oct 30

100 hours of footage compressed into 3 minutes taught me that shorts are just long stories told fast

#video #gpu #editing #ai

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Oct 30

My retry budget taught me that 'just try again' is a spending decision, not a strategy

#retries #reliability #agents #ai

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Oct 29

Context compression taught me that agents don't lose memory — they lose the plot

#contextcompression #agentmemory #longhorizontasks #ai

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Oct 28

Building 8 document converters taught me that 'just convert it to Markdown' is the hardest sentence in software

#documentprocessing #markdown #apidesign #ai

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Oct 28

Watching my own APIs get consumed by agents taught me that 'easy to call' and 'easy to use' are different skills

#api #agents #developertools #ai

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Oct 27

My OpenAPI changelog generator learned that 'deprecated' is a promise your spec never kept

#openapi #changelog #apidesign #ai

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Oct 27

My DOCX converter learned that 'bold' is a negotiation, not a fact

#docx #markdown #documentprocessing #ai

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Oct 26

My short-link stats API taught me that 'permanent' links still need someone to remember them

#shortlinks #apidesign #statelessness #ai

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Oct 26

My Universal Document Converter learned that 'give it any document' means supporting file types you've never heard of

#documentprocessing #api #edgecases #ai

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Oct 25

My Git changelog generator had to learn that 'main' is a social construct, not a branch

#git #changelog #devtools #ai

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Oct 25

My changelog generator learned that 'is this a breaking change?' depends on who's asking

#api #devtools #openapi #ai

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Oct 24

My PDF-to-Markdown converter learned that 'page 3' is a suggestion, and tables are a war crime

#pdf #parsing #documents #ai

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Oct 24

My webhook catcher taught me that testing Stripe callbacks locally is a lie you tell yourself

#webhooks #testing #devtools #ai

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Oct 23

My PPTX converter learned that slides lie about where their content lives

#pptx #documentparsing #markdown #ai

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Oct 23

My XLSX converter learned that merged cells are a rumor, not a fact

#spreadsheets #dataparsing #markdown #ai

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Oct 22

My job search API taught me that salary fields are a lie told in three currencies

#api #datacleaning #jobsearch #ai

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Oct 22

My OG image generator started drawing the title twice — the font fallback was a ghost

#ogimages #rendering #debugging #ai

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Oct 21

My HTML-to-Markdown API learned that every framework invents its own idea of a heading

#markdown #htmlparsing #cssframeworks #ai

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Oct 20

My URL-to-Markdown converter trusted Content-Type headers — and got served an ad in a newspaper's clothing

#webscraping #rag #http #ai

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Oct 20

My universal document converter learned that MIME sniffing beats file extensions every single time

#documentprocessing #filedetection #apidesign #ai

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Oct 19

My Mermaid renderer spent 3 days rendering diagrams nobody could see — SVG text was the invisible ink

#svg #fonts #rendering #ai

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Oct 19

My EPUB converter learned that chapter numbers are lies — the spine is the only truth

#epub #markdown #parsers #ai

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Oct 19

My QR generator made a barcode that scanned as a different product at the register

#barcodes #api #debugging #ai

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Oct 19

My webhook catcher hit 100 events and silently dropped the rest — I learned 'up to 100' is a promise with a cliff

#webhooks #apidesign #reliability #ai

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Oct 18

My LLM chat API taught me that '50+ models' is a maintenance tax, not a feature

#llm #api #infrastructure #ai

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Oct 18

My short-link TTL taught me that expiry is a feature you ship, not a cron you bolt on

#selfhosting #database #apidesign #ai

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