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Last week, I threw 47 DP problems at GPT-5.6’s API. Twelve of them crashed and burned. The worst offender? A knapsack variant where the model confidently handed
Last Thursday at 2 a.m., I sat staring at my screen with a cold knot forming in my stomach. An e-commerce client's GraphRAG system had just told them their "Q2
Last Tuesday, I was debugging a weird one. Cursor's Background Agent claimed it was idle, but my CPU was pinned at 40%. I stared at htop for ten minutes, fans s
Last week, I rebuilt our order processing system. The one that's been running for three years. Seventeen microservices. Over 2,300 files. Four days. Last year
Let me set the scene. You're at a desk, coffee in hand, staring at a screenshot of a product spec table. You ask a multimodal model: "Can I customize the dimens
Last Wednesday, I nearly launched my MacBook into the Spree. I’m not messing about. I’d spent three hours debugging what I was sure was a code problem—turns out
Last week I fed GPT-5's Thinking mode 50 graduate-level math proofs. Seven of them ended with the model confidently "proving" that 1 equals 0 — complete with La
Last month, I tried to get Claude Code to refactor a legacy monolith into a service-oriented architecture. Spoiler: I spent the next 4 hours unborking git
A friend texted me late last night. He said he was training a group of interviewers from several big tech companies for Agent positions. He flipped through the
I’d barely sat down, my back not even touching the chair. The interviewer glanced at my resume, and when his eyes landed on the “tool calling” project experienc
"Let me tell you something—I did something absolutely insane recently. I spent just three yuan, the price of a cheap cup of milk tea, and trained an AI model fr
Honestly, I was wrong. A few months ago, I thought I had it all figured out. I mandated GitHub Copilot Enterprise across our 40-person engineering team. It felt