One of the things I've always enjoyed about coding is getting completely locked into a problem. You know what you're building, each small obstacle leads to the next decision, and you stop noticing how much time has passed.
With agentic coding, I don't always get that feeling. I can produce more cod...
You know the feeling.
New job, first week. Or a project someone quit and left to you. Or an open-source repo you want to contribute to. You clone it, you open it, and there it is: thousands of files, folders inside folders, names you don't recognize, and the specific, sinking dread of *I'm supposed...
#Most developers already know this rule:
> **Don't run code from a repository you don't trust.**
But AI coding agents are creating a slightly different security problem.
Sometimes, you don't need to manually run the malicious code.
**Your coding agent may interact with the repository for you.**
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I had a lot of work to get through, and for once I didn't want to crawl through it one ticket at a time.
I knew Claude Code could run a few sessions in parallel, so my first thought was just to turn a couple of agents loose on different things at once.
But then I hit my actual hangup: I ...
## Introduction
I keep hearing the term loop engineering. It's all over my feed, every AI newsletter, half the dev videos I open. So I had the same question you probably have. Is this actually important, and do I need to learn it as a frontend or fullstack developer?
I spent some time with it and ...
I have been writing a lot about AI lately, but this one is more personal than usual. Not a tutorial, not a hot take on some new model - just something I have been sitting with for a few weeks now.
Let's start from the beginning. A few weeks ago I was scrolling Twitter at around midnight, the way yo...
Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have **discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month!**
Additionally, I will share some posts highlights on **what post I am proud of sharing to Dev.to** and my **top 3 posts that stood out to me this month!**
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*How I built a gamified, infinite-scroll video installation for the TIAT "Slop Epistemologies" exhibition—and optimized heavy web media to run smoothly on a $15 single-board computer.*
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I am going to start with a number most people will not say out loud.
**1,200 applications.**
That is how many jobs I applied to over 3 to 4 months trying to switch from a service-based company to a product-based one. I had spreadsheets, saved searches, and browser tabs I kept telling myself I woul...