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Hacker News·2 min·12h agoFREE

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

Fabien Sanglard describes his journey using LLMs for coding, from initial failure in mid-2025 to improved results in January 2026, though code quality was poor. He then used agentic IDEs like Antigravity and VS Code's Claude Code plugin, which improved quality but required repetitive instructions. He created an agent.md file to encode his coding style preferences, which the coding harness loads at session start, reducing repetition and improving consistency.

Developers can use agent.md to encode coding preferences, reducing repetitive instructions and improving LLM-generated code quality.

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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

A Rehearsal Is Only Cheap In Distribution

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A Rehearsal Is Only Cheap In Distribution

A DEV Community article titled 'A Rehearsal Is Only Cheap In Distribution' presents CSS code for a retro-themed challenge. The code applies Windows 95 and 1999 hacker aesthetics to the page, including teal backgrounds, comic sans fonts, spinning avatars, and neon green grids. The article appears to be a styling demonstration rather than a technical tutorial.

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

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Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

Microsoft quietly changed a popular software grant, causing over 170,000 small nonprofits to lose all their data. The change, reported by Slate, has left these organizations without access to their files. The article questions whether Microsoft is to blame for the incident, highlighting the impact on the nonprofit sector.

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Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Anthropic's newest model, Opus 5, holds only 3.5% of model spend, indicating developers favor cheaper alternatives.

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Simon Willison10h ago1mFREE

Why real-time AI at scale is so hard

Real-time AI at scale poses significant engineering challenges that developers must address for production deployments.

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The New Stack14h ago1mFREE

Building a Scalable, HIPAA‑Compliant Healthcare Document Processing Pipeline in .NET & Azure

Provides a reference for developers building HIPAA-compliant document processing systems on Azure with .NET.

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DEV Community2h ago1mFREE

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

Shows smaller models can handle complex tasks, potentially lowering costs for developers.

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Hacker News20h ago1mFREE

Credits, plans and quotas in Laravel with Larameter

Larameter offers Laravel developers a structured way to add credits, plans, and quotas, simplifying common SaaS billing features.

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DEV Community3h ago1mFREE

7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)

Helps developers identify and avoid over-engineering in AI apps, leading to simpler, more maintainable projects.

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DEV Community3h ago1mFREE

Building a Plug-and-Play JVM Compiler for Android and Desktop with Bytesmith

Bytesmith could streamline cross-platform JVM development by enabling native compilation for Android and desktop from a single codebase.

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DEV Community2h ago1mFREE

Hister - A private, full content search index that you control

Hister offers developers a self-hosted, private search index alternative to cloud-based search services.

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Lobsters18h ago1mFREE

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