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ArticleMonths on the rater side of LLM training taught me one thing: the model's default answer isn't its best answer — it's the answer most likely to get a thumbs-up from a tired human reviewer. Four laws to drag it out of the median.
ArticlePaying $20/month and getting $2 of value. The gap between top 1% and everyone else isn't the model — it's how they drive it. Here's the playbook power users actually run.
I built the same news digest agent in LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. They gave me four different rankings of the same articles. Here's why, and which one I'd ship to production.
axios got compromised through a supply chain attack on one of its transitive dependencies. I built reqcraft, a 3kb HTTP client with zero dependencies and the same API. Here's the full story and how it works.
ArticleA 9-step process for turning messy requirements into a clean, production-ready database schema — with a full PostgreSQL example, ERD, and the common mistakes that trip up most developers.
ArticleHave you ever wondered how video calling apps like Google Meet, Zoom, or Discord work? The answer lies in WebRTC. This guide takes you from zero to understanding the full picture.