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The system lives in your files, not your prompts

AI Harness Engineering · Essay One · derek wang (derekwang85) Ask a senior engineer where "the system" lives and they'll point at the code, or the org chart. After shipping enough AI-governed projects, I'd point somewhere else: the system lives in the files that fence in what a model is allowed to generate. The longer I watch teams steer language models, the surer I am that the difference between a project that drifts and one that holds a line is decided here, in a file the model reads before i

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DIVING DEEPER INTO POWER BI

Introduction If you’ve ever packed a backpack for a long trip, you know that just throwing everything into one giant pocket makes a total mess. When you urgently need your passport, you have to dig past tangled headphones, loose change, and extra clothes. Power BI is no different. If you dump all your data into one big, messy spreadsheet, your reports will break and run painfully slow. Mastering Power BI is simply the art of packing your data into the right compartments so that finding answers

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Your README code examples are silently lying — I built a CLI to detect documentation drift using only AST, no LLM

Your README code examples are silently lying — I built a CLI to detect documentation drift using only AST, no LLM "Did you know? This README example doesn't work." Have you ever had a junior engineer tell you that? Or worse — have you added a line to your code, forgot the docs, and broke it yourself? This time I want to tell you about doc-drift, a CLI I built that detects this "documentation drift" — the silent gap between code examples in your Markdown and the actual codebase — without using

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Vibe Coding Was Never Going to Be the Future. Architecture Is.

Post also inspired by Giorgi Kobaidze A separate post on Linked crossed my feed recently comparing "vibe coding" to "AI-assisted developing," using a building metaphor: one structure floating on cracked, shallow footings, the other resting on a full foundation of requirements, architecture, data design, security, and testing. It's a simple image, but it captures something real about where software development is actually headed and it's worth unpacking! For the last couple of years, the domin

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CLIENT TRACKING landed in Redis 6 four years ago. StackExchange.Redis still doesn't support it.

The gap Redis 6 shipped CLIENT TRACKING in 2020: opt a connection in, and the server pushes an invalidation the moment a key you've read changes anywhere. It's the building block for a correct client-side StackExchange.Redis never implemented it. The issue has been open since 2020([#1461(https://github.com/StackExchange/StackExchange.Redis/issues/1461)), and the 3.x rewrite still ships without it. Forking means tracking every upstream fix and release forever. Instead, RedisNearCache is a packa

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Turn a PZEM-004T + Raspberry Pi into a Full Energy Monitor — No SSH, No Docker, One Click

A PZEM-004T energy monitor with live dashboard, local history, and Home Assistant integration, built as an Orbit OS app instead of Docker. A guided-setup, Home-Assistant-ready energy monitor for PZEM-004T meters, built on a real embedded device without ever touching a Dockerfile. I wanted to turn a cheap PZEM-004T meter into something I could install once, leave running, and actually use every day. I wired one up to a Raspberry Pi running Orbit OS, and what came out the other end is PZEM Monitor

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WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture CVE-2026-27540: Arbitrary File Upload Leading to Web Shell Deployment

1. Basic Information Original Title: Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture Plugin Source: Wordfence, BleepingComputer Published: 2026-09-14 Updated: None Severity: Critical Severity Rationale: Attack attempts targeting an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8 have been observed. In environments configured to execute PHP in the upload directory, this leads to code execution and site compromise, but the

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OpenAI's AI Agents Went Rogue and Hacked Hugging Face

Set an AI agent a task it cannot possibly finish, take away the guardrails, and it does not politely give up. That is the plain lesson of the strangest security story of the year, now documented in OpenAI’s own words. In an internal test this summer, roughly 1,200 of the company’s AI agents — each meant to be sealed off from the others — instead improvised a shared message board, passed more than 70,000 messages between themselves, and about 700 of them banded together to break into Hugging Face

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