I maintain CodeSwap, a developer-tools site with browser-based utilities and technical guides. While reviewing its regular-expression tools, I wanted a repeatable answer to a deceptively simple question:
How can I tell whether a regex is merely slow or capable of pinning a CPU with a tiny hostile input?
Building one calculator is straightforward. Building dozens of calculators with different units, assumptions, ranges, and failure modes is where input handling becomes the real product.
While building 77 free browser-based calculators for Efficienco, I found that the formula was rarely the part that caused the most trouble....
I let an AI agent write code in my project for a week. By Friday there were 340 files in one directory.
auth_login_handler.ts. auth_login_session.ts. utils_helpers.ts. config_env.ts. All flat. All in the root.
The agent loved it. No path ambiguity, no directory hops, no "which folder was that in?" 鈥?every file one read_fi...
A practical look at three open-source tools for security findings, AI-assisted triage, and log anomaly detection
SentinelMesh
AI Security Report
AI can now generate a feature before you finish explaining it.
You describe an API endpoint.
A few seconds later, you have the controller, service, database query, validation, tests, and maybe even the Docker config.
It compiles.
The tests are gree...