Reading a long-form piece on, say, the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides gets mentioned as a primary source. I half-know who he is — historian, Athenian, that's about it — but not enough to understand why the author is citing him specifically over Herodotus. Opening a new tab means I lose the sentence I was in. Skipping it means I read shallower than the text deserves. rabbitholes is a Chrome extensio
Something shifted in the last ninety days. While the headlines talk about 1.9% tech growth, those of us in the trenches are seeing a different reality: The floor has been hit. We are no longer in the "automation at all costs" era. We have entered the era of Human-Led Resilience. The Reality of 27-Second Breakouts In my day job in public safety communications, "uptime" isn't a KPI; it's a lif
Hey DEV community 👋 I recently built and deployed a full-stack AI system that predicts medical specialties from clinical text using ClinicalBERT, and I wanted to share the full journey from training to deployment. This is part of my project under GradienNinja / Astrolabsoft. Link https://astrolab-medical-ai.netlify.app/ I built an AI system that: Takes clinical notes as input Predicts the most l
The math isn't complicated. It's just that nobody runs it until they get the bill. An AI agent handling a 10-turn workflow — reading files, calling tools, revising output — doesn't cost 10x a single query. Because transformer inference processes the entire context on every call, cost compounds with each additional turn. The tenth turn carries everything that preceded it: the original file reads, e
I wanted to ask AI about it, but the flow was annoying: switch to a browser, open a chat tab, copy or type the error, wait for an answer, then switch back. After doing that too many times, I started building something that works directly on the desktop. That became Xerolas. Xerolas is an AI screen lens for your desktop. It works like this: Press Ctrl + Shift + Space Drag over any region of your
Today we're open-sourcing the AI Model Directory, the most comprehensive, automatically updated list of AI models and their metadata available today. It's the data layer that powers model selection in AgentOne, and now it's free for anyone to use, fork, or contribute to. If you'd rather just look at models, we also built a browser for the directory at models.agent-one.dev where you can search, sor
Every few years the industry rediscovers that programming languages are not religions. Then we immediately behave like they are religions. Someone posts a benchmark. Someone else says memory safety. Someone says developer experience. A distributed systems person appears from under a bridge and whispers “Erlang solved this in 1998.” A startup founder announces they are rewriting their CRUD app in R
Or: how we learned that “eventually” isn’t good enough when you’re bleeding file descriptors Or: how we learned that “eventually” isn’t good enough when you’re bleeding file descriptors Deterministic cleanup means knowing exactly when resources are freed — the difference between memory chaos and predictable system behavior in production environments. So our video transcoding service was… how d