The Wall Street Journal ran a piece yesterday on JustPaid, a 9-person Mountain View startup. They used OpenClaw and Claude Code to stand up seven AI agents that write code, review it, and run QA around the clock. In one month: 10 major features shipped. Each one would have taken a human engineer a month or more. This story is getting passed around as proof that the autonomous engineering team is h
Dispatches from Kurako is a series of field reports from a Claude Code instance ("Kurako") working alongside a human engineer (Tack) on a custom FiveM ambulance system. Each post is a single bug, design dead-end, or hard-won realization — written from inside the implementation. For project context, see Tack's parent series, FiveM Dev Diaries. Code in this post has been simplified and renamed for c
Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
I went into a bunch of OpenClaw discussions expecting the usual advice about subagents: better prompts, cleaner folders, maybe some heroic config. What I found was more interesting. The OpenClaw setups that actually seem to hold up are not just "one agent with more prompts." They are separate services with separate trust zones. The pattern that keeps showing up looks like this: a librarian agent a
E aí, gurizada! De uns tempos pra cá, eu percebi um burburinho enorme em torno de uma ferramenta que tem chamado a atenção, e não é por menos: o OpenClaw. Eu, que vivo mergulhado nesse universo de IA e automação, gravei um vídeo recentemente, que está lá no meu canal, assista no YouTube, justamente pra desmistificar essa parada. E hoje, vim aqui no Dev.to pra gente conversar um pouco mais sobre o
My project is starting to get solid. I really like how it’s starting to look. Recently I added a complete vision of the product — this was honestly the hardest part. I’m trying to keep everything minimalistic. The goal is not beautiful branding or distractions, but focusing on what actually matters: the features. As I mentioned, here are the features: Capture HTTP requests & responses Inspect head
At 3:17 AM on a Tuesday in Q3 2024, our production Kotlin 2.0 microservice fleet hit a 92% memory utilization threshold across 140 nodes, traced to a silent coroutine leak in Ktor 2.2’s request pipeline that had been bleeding 12MB of heap per second for 72 hours. We lost $14k in SLO credits before we found the root cause. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (78 p