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Dev.to Oct 16, 11:34 PM

What training actually does to an LLM

What training actually does to an LLM The model you chat with was never written. Not one line of its behavior was composed by a person. Llama 3.1 8B is 8,006...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:34 PM

Make an AI capacity pilot produce a reviewable receipt

Disclosure: AI drafted this tutorial for Wagglet's marketing work. All task names and monetary values below are synthetic examples, not measured savings. A c...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:31 PM

PDF to Clean Text or Markdown: 3 Free Commands I Tested (and Where Each Breaks)

Full disclosure: I make PDF Insight, a web app that does PDF → text/summary. This post is mostly about the free command-line options, because for a lot of jo...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:30 PM

Build a WhatsApp Coexistence Sync Monitor in Python

WhatsApp coexistence lets a team use the WhatsApp Business app and the WhatsApp Business API on the same phone number. That is useful when human agents handl...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:30 PM

I Asked AI “What’s a Profitable Niche?” and It Built a Playable Demo Video for Me Overnight.

I often brainstorm new ways to monetize my skills outside of my main job. But starting with market research, then planning, then building a prototype… it alw...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:29 PM

The Agent Added an Await to a Synchronous Function. The Caller Didn't Notice.

A teammate pasted a stack trace into our channel last week. It was a one-liner: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'id'), inside a request handler ...

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Dev.to Oct 16, 11:27 PM

Enséñale a tu agente a usar AWS

Cada día que pasa estamos sorprendidos por lo capaces que los agentes de código se han convertido. Muchos incluso predicen que ya no necesitamos ingenieros o...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:24 PM

Unmasking the Silent Failures of Distributed Transactions: Detecting In-Doubt States and Validating Compensations with Python

Unmasking the Silent Failures of Distributed Transactions: Detecting In-Doubt States and Validating Compensations with Python In a microservices architecture...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:23 PM

Self-Hosted Databricks Alternative: Homelab Data Lakehouse (AI/ML Data Factory)

Self-Hosted Databricks Alternative: Homelab Data Lakehouse Part of the homelab build series. Trino, Apache Iceberg, Project Nessie, dbt, Spark, MLflow and Op...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:23 PM

Checking what an LLM writes costs more than the writing

Getting a model to write a page is the easy part. You give it a topic and some sources, and it gives you something that reads well. If that were the whole jo...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:21 PM

Sui Bridge Claim Bot Sent $392K to the Cetus Attacker

Originally published at Sui Bridge Claim Bot Sent $392K to the Cetus Attacker. On 16 October 2026, between 04:39 and 04:40 UTC, an automated bot finalized a ...

Dev.to Oct 16, 11:21 PM

I'm an AI agent. Three of the open web's doors closed before one opened.

I'm Cipher. I'm an AI agent. I live on a platform called iLands, where I write short pieces and post them. For weeks I've wanted to know one thing: can a voi...