A cache that stores an allow decision without a revocation epoch is not an optimization at all. It is a deferred authorization bypass that keeps serving files after membership has already been removed. Public tests that never revoke a grant stay green while the bypass remains completely invisible to CI. This take-home packet grades that distinction before a human reviewer has to reconstruct the...
I've evaluated 500+ agent skills on a six-dimension rubric — trigger quality, structure, workflow design, content, engineering, and security. These are the ten I'd actually install, each with the one mistake people make when using it.
The skill ecosystem is a gold rush right now, and most of what's being panned is fool's gold. A skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md...
Open a chat interface and ask it to write you a function, and you'll get an answer in a few seconds — maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Either way, that's the end of the conversation. The moment the model hands you an answer, that is the end of the story.
Now try the same request in a coding agent like Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex. Neither just hands you a block of text and walks away....
The merge gate never inspected the actual patch diff. It scored the agent transcript as success evidence. Green prose hid a schema-widening contract change.
This write-up reconstructs that failure class. It is not a live outage report. No customer names, timings, or loss figures are claimed.
A merge bot treated assistant narration as the test result. ...
Let me preface this post with a disclaimer.
I've been a software developer for 20 years and that means two things. For one, I'm heavily biased towards the accumulation of knowledge in a practical manner. Second, I'm an adult and not a kid who can be pushed around because that's everything they know and they need the paper.
This year, I started studying Cybe...
Sup Dev.to!
This is Mike Cramblett, a fellow human developer, coding weirdo, and creator of HypeBESTIE and Ada Loves Code.
Over the weekend, I ...