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Qingfeng

Oct 20

30 Days of a Local AI Agent on My Own Machine: What Actually Broke

#showdev #ai #llm #agents

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

Giving an AI Agent a Real Phone: What ADB Automation Actually Looks Like

#showdev #android #adb #automation

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

The Approval Gate: Designing an Agent That Can't Burn Your House Down

#showdev #ai #security #agents

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

Coordinate Clicks Are a Trap: Driving a GUI Agent Without Pixel Guessing

#showdev #automation #testing #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

The Log Format That Made My Agent Debuggable

#showdev #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

How I Measure Whether My Agent Is Actually Saving Me Time

#discuss #showdev #productivity #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

Cleaning Up After a Failed Run Is the Part Nobody Writes About

#showdev #devops #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

I Stopped Writing Prompts and Started Writing Fixtures

#showdev #testing #productivity #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 20

What I Let the Agent Do Without Asking, and What I Never Will

#showdev #productivity #security #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Ten Unglamorous Tasks My Agent Actually Handles

#discuss #productivity #showdev #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

Five Things I Check Before Believing an Agent Demo

#showdev #productivity #discuss #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Pre-Flight Check That Killed Most of My Failures

#showdev #devops #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

What I Do When the Agent Says It's Done

#showdev #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

My Agent Was Never Slow. My Tasks Were Serial.

#showdev #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

If I Started Over, I'd Write the Logs First

#showdev #devops #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Agent Doesn't Need More Context. It Needs the Right Five Lines.

#discuss #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

Two Plain Text Files Replaced My Whole Agent Framework

#showdev #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

I Sorted 400 Agent Failures Into Five Buckets. Almost None Were the Model's Fault.

#discuss #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The 20% of Tasks I Deliberately Do Not Give the Agent

#discuss #showdev #productivity #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Second Run Is Where the Lies Show Up

#discuss #testing #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

What I Got Wrong About "Just Give It a Better Model"

#discuss #programming #productivity #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Twenty Minute Review That Keeps My Agent Honest

#discuss #showdev #productivity #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

Letting the Agent Touch the Browser Changed My Task List

#showdev #programming #automation #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

What I Automate First in a New Project, and Why It Is Never the Important Part

#devops #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

I Read My Agent's Log Backwards, and the Bug Was in Line Two

#productivity #testing #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

A Script and a Task Are Not the Same Thing

#discuss #productivity #programming #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Hardest Part of a Local Agent Is Deciding When to Stop

#showdev #programming #productivity #ai

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Qingfeng

Oct 21

The Two Lists I Keep for an Agent That Runs Unattended

#discuss #productivity #programming #ai

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