Build without limits - SDLC Briefing, #2

Most of the backend code I've deleted this year wasn't deleted because it was bad. It was deleted...

AI owns DEV's front page this week: AI features running in the browser on one side, AI fatigue on the...

The pivot I spent the last months building a local multi-agent CLI code generator - planner → coder →...

Three levers that cut agent token spend without cutting quality: cheaper retrieval handoffs, lifecycle-aware model placement, and content-based proxy routing.

Budget alerts report the overrun after the money is gone. Here's a pre-flight, atomic budget cap for OpenAI and Anthropic clients that you can copy and paste.

Each of your 20 agents checked the budget and passed, and together they still overspent. Here's a thread-safe pre-flight cap in Python, plus what alerts miss.

A free coding agent fails in a predictable direction: it says yes. Ask for a one-line fix and the...

A viral rant says run your own LLM proxy; the HN thread asks how. Here is the runnable answer — one file, no API key — and the verbatim capture: the machine inventory your client volunteers, the retry your app never mentions, and the conve…

chore, feature, deep: three model and effort presets for Claude Code and Codex, plus the two settings that quietly override them.

I run Xonta, a small marketplace where developers list AI agents with a description and a price....