Your AI Agent Has Amnesia
In a previous post, I wrote about an AI tutoring system that generated identical verb conjugation exercises across every session — grammatically perfect, pedagogically useless. The student scored 1...
Guanya Peng
What Two Bugs Taught Me About AI Agentic Harnesses
I’d been running my AI-powered exercise generation system for weeks. It produced worksheets, rendered them to PDF, evaluated photographed handwritten answers, tracked scores, and adapted difficulty...
The Planning Phase Is Where AI Agents Earn Their Keep
I asked Claude Code to design a Neovim maintenance system — update scripts, upstream sync, cross-machine portability, the works. It explored my setup in parallel with three agents, drafted a compre...
AI Agent Skills: Turning One-Off Fixes into Reusable Knowledge
My VPN stopped connecting. Not with a helpful error message — the Alacritty terminal window spawned by my opencon command opened for a fraction of a second and closed. No output, no log, nothing to...
From Meeting Notes to Merged Code: Automating Action Items with Claude Code
Our weekly meeting just ended. Gemini captured the notes automatically — attendees, topics discussed, decisions made, and a tidy list of action items at the bottom. I close the Google Meet tab, ope...
From Idea to App: A Non-Programmer’s Guide to Building with AI
I’ve been diving into the DeepLearning.AI course “Build with Andrew”, and it gave me a profound realization. The real insight isn’t just a new way to write software—it’s that highly technical field...
A Practical Look at Generating Structured Outputs with LLMs
Over the past weeks, I’ve tested various methods to get LLMs to produce consistent, well-structured responses—an essential step when integrating these models into programmatic solutions, where free...
Why My CHANGELOG Never Updated: Debugging python-semantic-release
My GitLab CI/CD pipeline showed “Job succeeded” for the release stage, but CHANGELOG.md never changed. The version bumped correctly, tags were created, yet the changelog remained empty. No errors a...
Debugging a GitHub Actions Race Condition: A Deep Dive into CI/CD Diagnostics
After merging a PR to the main branch of the crmPack R package repository, I noticed the GitHub Pages deployment workflow failed with a cryptic error: atomic push failed for ref refs/heads/gh-pages...
A Structured Guide to Learning MLflow and MLOps Fundamentals
As a data scientist or ML practitioner, have you ever found yourself juggling multiple model experiments, losing track of which hyperparameters produced the best results, or struggling to reproduce...