# My Scheduled Agent Ran 40 Times and Did Nothing — Here's the Assertion That Fixed It I found this one by accident, which is the only way you find it. Every night at 02:30, a job pulls new filings from an API, normalizes them, and drops them in a queue that feeds my morning briefing. It had been...
Read articleAnthropic published a post about their CI infrastructure that I keep coming back to. The headline number is that Claude writes 80% of their code. That's the part everyone quoted. The part that stuck with me was further down: their test suite grew 10x, and CI jobs went up 25x over six months. Read ...
Read article--- title: Four things that cost us money while automating job applications published: true description: Scoring on your own input, believing an unarmed instrument, trusting HTTP 200, and waiting on a list that was still rendering. tags: ai, automation, webdev, testing --- Filling a job application...
Read article## First, give it to a robot Earlier this week, I [wrote about](https://dev.to/lolocoding/164-disposable-computers-one-judging-afternoon-and-a-question-nobody-had-time-to-ask-19da) how I built a tool to run every submission from a hackathon, all 164 of them, each on its own disposable computer, to ...
Read articleThe naive version of a scheduled Discord bot is a `setTimeout` per upcoming event. It works in testing and falls apart in production for three separate reasons. Here is a design that does not. ## Why setTimeout per event fails **Restarts wipe everything.** Your host redeploys, the process restarts...
Read article# My Paper Trading Bot Went Live This Week — Here's the Guardrail Stack I Built First Confession time: my trading bot has been "almost ready for real money" for about four months. Classic side-project arc. I built a scanner, it found opportunities, it paper-traded them beautifully. The equity curv...
Read articleI scrape data for a living, and most of that job is the same fight over and over: a site has data I need, and it really doesn't want me to have it. This is the story of one wall that beat every trick in the usual playbook — and what finally worked. The target I needed a set of listings from a larg...
Read articleI run a one-person dev shop, and I keep hearing the same complaint from small business owners: answering customer support emails eats hours every day, especially when half the questions are variations of the same five things. So I built a small pipeline: Gmail → Claude API classification → Slack no...
Read articleAnthropic and Accenture have announced a multi-year partnership designed to help organizations move [Claude-based AI work](https://scalevise.com/resources/claude/) beyond isolated pilots and into production use. The collaboration combines Accenture's consulting and implementation reach with Anthropi...
Read articleMost people I know got to Claude through code, which is reasonable enough considering the name. I got there because at ten in the morning I wanted somebody else to check my numbers. I'm not an engineer. My job is getting people to use our product, which means I spend a surprising amount of time loo...
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