The most dangerous government AI strategy in 2026 is also the most fashionable: treating autonomy as the goal. In April 2026, GAO reported that federal agencies more than doubled AI use from 2023 to 2024, even as acquisition teams still faced gaps in technical expertise and cost visibility. Spee...
Read article*This is a submission for the [Sanity Challenge, Path One: Ship an Agent That Queries Real Content](https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16)* ## What I Built A resistivity reading of 2,950 Ω·m sounds like an answer. It is not. Resistivity measures how strongly the ground resists electric curre...
Read articlen8n has published an **automated product review monitoring** workflow template that brings review collection, AI sentiment analysis, logging, and alerts into one process. The template reads product URLs from Google Sheets, retrieves reviews through Decodo, uses [Google Gemini](https://scalevise.com/...
Read article*This is a submission for the [Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange](https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16)* ## What I Built **Cellar** is a wine collection that remembers what you used to believe. Most cellar apps answer one question: what do I have right now? Cellar ans...
Read articleI was seeing a lot of people writing about burnout on here recently. I feel for you. I was in a mood and started writing lyrics and drawing a cartoon. Here is the aftermath. I think if you can't feel anymore, maybe you will feel this song. Drawing and writing got me out of bed today, that's dramatic...
Read articleI recently put out a video arguing that frontend development is changing. I don't think the work is going away. The frontend developer title is what's changing, and a lot of us are turning into full stack developers. The comments had opinions, so I recorded a follow-up. {% embed https://www.youtub...
Read articleIn this post, I walk through **B.L.O.O.M.** (Bridging Local Observations, Openly Mapped), an offline cyberdeck built on the **Arduino UNO Q** that helps naturalists capture field notes, identify birdsong with **Edge Impulse**, and generate vintage field sketches with **Cloudinary's image generation ...
Read article# How I Built an Autonomous B2B Lead Enrichment & SMTP Verification Engine in Python for $0.003/Lead If you have ever scaled outbound campaigns beyond a few hundred contacts a week, you know the exact failure mode: commercial lead databases are stale, bulk email validators miss catch-all domains, a...
Read article[](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wPdoZRbvaF4/maxresdefault.jpg) How do you currently test your AI agents? If you're like most developers building agentic workflows, you probably rely on the **"vibe check"**: tweak a prompt, run a couple of manual queries, check if the output looks reasonable, and ass...
Read articleYou ask your AI assistant how to do something. It gives you clean, confident code, with an install line at the top: ```bash pip install aws-helper-sdk ``` You run it. The build works. You move on. Except `aws-helper-sdk` never existed. The model made it up. And last month, someone registered that...
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