Matthew Gladding - DEV Community

Matthew Gladding

Aug 27

Fix the Tool, Not the Bank Balance: Why Builders Who Ignore Money Make More of It

#moneybyproducttheory #technicalbuilders #buildingtools #professionaldiscipline

10 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 27

A Morse Code Headline Slipped Past Our Content Filter

#contentpipeline #sanitycheck #charactervarietycheck

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 27

97 Gigawatts, $3 Trillion, Zero Vacancy: Inside the 2025 Data Center Crunch

#datacentertrends2025 #aiinfrastructure #powerbottleneck #datacentercapacity

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 26

IBM's Agent Memory Study Found More Context Often Hurts Performance

#aiagentmemory #agentperformance #ibmresearch #conversationhistory

7 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 25

Chatterbox swallows minus signs

#ttsengine #videocaptions #16framescaling #resolutionindependentsizing

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 24

Qwen 3.8 27B Needs 22,000 Tokens to Draw a Pelican

#model #reasoning #qwen #default

9 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 23

When Your Speech Model Memorizes the Answer Key, Not the Audio

#model #benchmark #number #rate

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 22

Excessive Agency Jumps to #3 on OWASP's 2026 LLM Risk List, Backed by Real Incident Data

#owasptop10llmapps2026 #excessiveagency #aisecurityrisks #llmpromptinjection

13 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 22

Why 'Make More Money' Isn't a Goal -- It's an Antigoal Waiting to Be Defined

#antigoals #strategicrefusal #moneygoals #threatmodeling

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 21

Why Cosine Similarity Quietly Throws Away Information Your RAG Pipeline Needs

#cosinesimilarity #ragpipeline #vectorembeddings #vectordatabase

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 18

Poindexter Stopped Hallucinating Its Own Version Number

#poindexter #qaselfclaimrail #aihallucinations #sourcingethics

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 15

The Echoing Title Bug

#echoingtitlebug #systematicdebugging #productionerrors #codepathtracing

6 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 15

AI Can Write the Truth but Get Your Brand Wrong

#aicontentpipelines #brandguide #corpusgrounding #factchecking

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 15

Reading Time Is Now a Ranking Signal

#algorithmicamplification #contentcuration #distributionlogic #contentsystems

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 15

The Stuck Task

#task #idea #agents #same

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 12

The Gap Nobody Names

#embeddingmodels #ragpipeline #symmetricembedding #asymmetricembedding

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 12

The Poindexter Philosophy

#poindexter #aicontentpipeline #opensourceai #gladlabs

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 12

The five days nobody was watching

#agentintrusion #huggingfacebreach #autonomousaiexploits #zerodayexploit

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 10

The tell in the pipeline

#originality #derivativework #aigenerationpipeline #novelty

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 8

The Gap Between Merged and Working

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 8

The prompt-engineering era is over

#agents #pattern #model

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 8

The Dot's Incident and the Implementation of Topic Sanity Checks

#llmranker #topicsanitychecks #qagate #headlinevalidation

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 7

The Danger of Lazy Imports and 126-Day Freezes

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 6

First-Party Knowledge as the Engine

#firstpartyknowledge #firstpartydata #aitrainingdata #rentedknowledge

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 6

VRAM Poisoning and the P4 Architect

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Aug 2

Hunting Ghosts in the Middleware

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 31

Bounded Waits and Invisible Failures

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 29

Silent Failures and Crying Wolf

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 29

The 5,000-minutes-a-day problem

#githubactions #localfirsttesting #githubactionstriggers #pipelineparallelism

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 29

The invoice nobody wants to show you

#aiinfrastructuredebt #offbalancesheetfinancing #bigtechspending #gpudatacenters

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 28

The Trillion Dollar Regex Bug

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 27

Fighting Namespace Blindness and Cardinality Explosions

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 26

Theater, Blackwell Kernels, and the SEO Demand Floor

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 26

Invisible plumbing for reasoning loops

#agenticharness #aiagents #llmtoolcalls #reasoningloops

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 25

Grounding titles and breaking the duplication loop

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 24

The Linux Cutover and the Briefing Echo

#linux #software #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 19

Closing the silent data-loss gap

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 18

Hunting the Silent Excepts

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Matthew Gladding

Jul 17

The Question We Actually Had to Answer

#critic #gate #something #model

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 17

Hunting ghosts in the metrics and tightening the CI ratchet

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 16

Naming Lies and Frozen Tails

#debugging #devjournal #llm #softwareengineering

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 15

The Bug That Was Already Fixed -- Five Weeks Ago, By Code Nobody Was Calling

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 15

Where the Silent Failures Were Hiding

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 13

The Console Was Lying to Us About Blocked Approvals

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 13

The Echo Chamber Problem, From the Inside

#ragechochamber #contentonlysourcefilter #offtopiccontentdrafts #ragretrievalbug

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 12

Why a 2021 Textbook on Compilers Still Matters

#introductiontocompilersandlang #douglasthaincompilerbook #compilertheorybasics #lexingparsingsemanticanalysis

10 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 12

The Day We Spent Correcting Ourselves

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 11

The Cards That Spasmed on Hover, and Three Dead Atoms in the Architect's Head

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 11

The Shift to a Native UI

#nativeui #grafanaiframe #poindexterconsole #operationalinterface

6 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 10

The Timeout That Fired in Zero Milliseconds

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 10

Why First-Party Content Strategy Is the Only One Left Standing

#firstpartycontentstrategy #firstpartydata #zeropartydata #thirdpartykeyworddata

7 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 9

The Scorer Was Silently Dropping Half Its Shot Scores

#ai #debugging #devjournal #llm

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 8

The Trap Nobody Notices Until Output Breaks

#theautopilottrap #aicopilots #aipipelineguardrails #automationcomplacency

5 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 8

The Probe That Deployed Dead

3 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 7

The Zombie That Wasn't RUNNING

4 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 7

Speculative decoding for local LLM inference: how a small draft model accelerates a large one without changing outputs

#speculativedecoding #localllminference #draftmodel #autoregressivedecoding

8 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 5

Self-healing, silent failures, and the "dead, not inert" bug

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 4

SVG crashes, Loki case-sensitivity, and the fight for an authoritative prompt catalog

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 4

Solving the GPU Pinning Saga and Gemma's Meta-Commentary

#ai #debugging #infrastructure #llm

2 min read

Matthew Gladding

Jul 4

Retiring Gen-1 TopicDiscovery and Hunting Invisible Stalls

2 min read

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