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AI agents can reason and interact with the rest of your tech stack through tool calls. But how do you wrangle non-deterministic tool calling in a way that is safe for production, w…

Not-so-hot take: you need to measure your agent's performance in production. Maybe-a-little-hotter-take: you should be using production data for evaluation rather than synthetic ev…

`Exclude` has saved me more times than I can count, good to see it's not just me that reaches for it when fixing type bugs!

Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6, who builds the better full-stack app? I had both models build the exact same Next.js + TypeScript project, An AI Job Application Analyzer that scores …

Langsmith just released their new AI powered agent builder platform. It allows you to write a prompt and build an AI automation out of it. N8N, which is a very mature automation pl…

Hi! Great question! For this round, I decided to compare the (arguably) best models and tools with the most ongoing support and development. That being said, I love local models! I…

Hi there! Even though it didn't score the highest (Cursor did!), I loved Claude's code, it's the one that I'm still using after completing the testing! Anthropic got the UX right i…

Hey, I'm Mitch (post author). I'm a 15+ year full-stack engineer who contracts with Render and guest-posted my research for their blog. Up until recently, I was very skeptical of A…