📰 Dev.to · Alan West

AI-generated code often breaks in production due to hidden assumptions. Here's how to audit vibe-coded projects and build a workflow that actually holds up.

Git's staging area and interactive rebase cause daily friction. Learn how jj (Jujutsu) solves these problems with a simpler model while staying Git-compatible.

Set up a fully local AI coding assistant with Ollama and Continue. No cloud dependency, full privacy, and surprisingly good code completions.

Comparing open-weight AI model licenses after MiniMax's M2.5 licensing controversy — what developers need to know before choosing a model for production.

Large pull requests kill code review quality. Learn how stacked PRs solve this with gh-stack, turning painful rebasing into a single command.

Fix the robotic, corporate tone in LLM-powered features using system prompt engineering. A practical guide to eliminating AI slop.

AI-powered web scrapers work great for news digests but fail at everything else. Here's why, and how to build scraping pipelines that actually hold up.

Servo, the Rust-native parallel web rendering engine, just hit crates.io as v0.1.0. Here's how to embed it in your project and avoid the gotchas.

Most engineering teams have no idea what their work actually costs. Here's a practical framework for tracking effort allocation and making better decisions.

macOS Privacy & Security settings don't always reflect reality. Learn how to audit TCC databases directly and debug permission issues the right way.

Fix the broken feedback loop between engineering and management with ADRs, risk profiles, and shared vocabulary systems.

How to audit your cloud region dependencies and build multi-region resilience before data center capacity constraints break your infrastructure.

A practical guide to migrating small business clients from WhatsApp voice messages to real order management systems, with code examples and tool comparisons.

Learn how CPU offloading, activation checkpointing, and smart memory management enable training 100B+ parameter LLMs on a single GPU.

Stop reading code blind. These git commands give you a mental map of any codebase in five minutes — who works on what, where the bugs are, and which files matte

Comparing AI-driven architecture vs. human-led design decisions, with a practical analytics tool comparison featuring Umami, Plausible, and Fathom.

Learn how to enable post-quantum hybrid key exchange in your TLS stack today. Practical steps for OpenSSL, Go, and nginx with code examples.

Learn how to set up a local LLM-powered penetration testing assistant that keeps client data off cloud APIs, with practical setup steps and code examples.

Learn how to evaluate AI model safety before production deployment using system cards, safety probes, and continuous monitoring.

A practical guide to diagnosing and fixing the anxiety spiral that AI hype creates for developers, with concrete steps to rebuild confidence.

Your app relies on hundreds of open-source packages nobody has reviewed. Here's how to audit, scan, and lock down your dependency chain before it bites you.

How to detect and block aggressive AI crawlers like Meta's bot, plus comparing Umami, Plausible, and Fathom for privacy-focused traffic monitoring.

A practical guide to debugging WML errors in Battle for Wesnoth add-ons, from enabling log output to fixing silent failures in custom scenarios.

Learn how to run LLM inference on extremely memory-constrained hardware using tiny models, aggressive quantization, and minimal runtimes.