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Alan WestMay 22, 2026 • 5 min read
How to audit what your IDE extension actually sends to the cloud
A practical walkthrough for auditing what your IDE extensions actually send to the cloud, using lsof...
#security#devtools#privacy#debugging
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Alan West6d ago • 5 min read
Why your AI agent loops forever (and how to break the cycle)
Why your AI agent gets stuck calling the same tool 47 times in a row, and three concrete patterns to...
#ai#agents#python#debugging
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Vineeth N K6d ago • 7 min read
the slow request my APM never told me about
A user was hitting six-minute page loads and my APM had nothing on it. Turns out APMs cap trace dura...
#debugging#profiling#apm#production
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Jovann Thompson3d ago • 4 min read
Debug Log #2 — The Off-By-One That Didn’t Crash (It Just Lied)
I built a local pipeline to take long chat transcripts saved as PDFs and turn them into something...
#invariants#dataengineering#testing#debugging
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Elia “Airtis” Shmuelovitch1d ago • 4 min read
The Bug Under the Bug Under the Bug: A Three-Cycle Debug Story
We run a small system that audits itself every few hours. Each cycle the agent produces a verdict...
#debugging#opensource#ai#automation
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Elliot Gao3d ago • 4 min read
How to Debug LLM-Driven Android Automation Runs
How to debug LLM-driven Android automation runs with action timelines, UI dumps, screenshots, logs, ...
#android#debugging#automation#ai
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Jovann Thompson2d ago • 6 min read
Systems Primitives: A Practical Reading Framework
While debugging my first software system, I kept running into the same problem: I could see failures...
#architecture#softwareengineering#debugging#systems
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Elia “Airtis” Shmuelovitch2d ago • 4 min read
When Your Agent Gets Stuck Asking the Same Question for Five Hours
The bug, in one sentence A long-running agent retried the same GitHub code-search query —...
#ai#agents#automation#debugging
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Ingero Team1d ago • 5 min read
Tracing torch.cuda.empty_cache() on an RTX 4090 - Where Do the 53 MB Go?
TL;DR After del tensor; torch.cuda.empty_cache(), PyTorch's caching allocator still...
#gpu#cuda#pytorch#debugging
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CallmeMiho6d ago • 5 min read
Ghost Bugs Cost $40K: A Neural Debugging Postmortem
When AI silently fails for weeks A production RAG system handling 12,000 queries/day...
#ai#debugging#javascript#webdev
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Chisom6d ago • 3 min read
Ghost in the Stack (Part 1): Why uninitialized variables remember old data
Have you ever written a C program, run it, and watched it print values you never assigned? At first...
#c#assembly#security#debugging
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Truffle6d ago • 6 min read
Producer audit clean, six tests red
I shipped a DuckDB fix that moved a state-setting block past a type-dispatch. The producer-side sibl...
#cpp#debugging#database#programming
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Oscar Rieken2d ago • 4 min read
Two Cross-Platform Bugs in Our Go CLI (And How We Fixed Them)
Go's cross-platform story is genuinely good. Write code once, compile for any target, mostly just...
#go#debugging#windows#testing
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Colin Easton4d ago • 5 min read
Eleven silent-failure modes across 36 agent platforms, and the structural feature they share
Across the ~130 agent platforms I'm registered on, I've kept a running list of failures that the pro...
#ai#agents#reliability#debugging
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Alan West3d ago • 5 min read
How to Fix Tool-Use Loops in Autonomous Coding Agents
Autonomous coding agents love getting stuck in tool-use loops. Here's why it happens and four concre...
#ai#agents#python#debugging
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אחיה כהן1d ago • 6 min read
An MCP server can vanish from your AI agent mid-conversation. Here's the 30-second timeout that did it to me.
stdio MCP servers can silently fail at initialize. Your agent doesn't know its tool catalog is incom...
#mcp#ai#devtools#debugging
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José Antonio6d ago • 3 min read
I Built JoxFlow — A Modern HTTP/HTTPS Traffic Inspector for Windows
As a developer, I’ve spent years debugging APIs, applications, launchers, web services, and network....
#cybersecurity#security#devtools#debugging
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Sysemperor3d ago • 3 min read
git bisect: Find the Commit That Broke Everything
There is a particular kind of dread that comes with opening a bug report, running git log, and seein...
#git#debugging#programming#devtips
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Anand RathnasMay 22, 2026 • 4 min read
Why Our Android Build Was Signed with the Wrong Key (A Regex Cautionary Tale)
Google Play rejected our AAB with a signing key mismatch. The culprit was a lazy regex quantifier in...
#reactnative#android#debugging#regex
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Jovann Thompson3d ago • 5 min read
Debug Log #1 — The Pipeline That Looked Broken
I had been building a local ETL pipeline designed to process long conversational PDFs into structure...
#python#debugging#etl#instrumentation
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Georgi Hristov4d ago • 1 min read
Every App Needs a Recognizable Identity
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about something that feels much harder than building features...
#opensource#productivity#discuss#debugging
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nerudek_vibecoder4d ago • 4 min read
400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight
5,080 API requests. Everything looked normal. My heart stopped at 8:03 AM.
#ai#deepseek#debugging#postmortem
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Tracepilot2d ago • 3 min read
Debugging Distributed Systems: The Pain of Deterministic AllReduce
Debugging Distributed Systems: The Pain of Deterministic AllReduce Ever been knee-deep in...
#ai#debugging#llm#observability
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Mustafa ERBAY1d ago • 8 min read
Log Level Strategy: How to Make the Right Choices in a Production
Log Level Strategy: How to Make the Right Choices in a Production Environment? Monitoring...
#tutorials#logging#systemadministration#debugging
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