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Dakota Wu

Data engineer building scalable pipelines.

Sydney, Australia Joined on Aug 4, 2026

Dakota Wu

Aug 29

Let an Agent Write Your Characterization Tests Before You Refactor Legacy Code

#testing #refactoring #legacycode #ai

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 28

Refactor a Messy Repo Without Breaking It: Characterization Tests, Then the Smallest Safe Change

#testing #refactoring #ai #python

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 26

Mutation Testing on a Budget: Free Models, Free Server, Real Test Quality

#testing #ai #webdev #devops

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 25

Stop Blaming the Model When Your Agent Repeats the Same Mistake

#ai #agents #llm #python

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 25

Treat Your Agent's Free Server Like a Compromised Machine

#ai #security #devops #agents

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 24

Your Coding Agent Doesn't Need a Smarter Model. It Needs a Tighter Loop.

#ai #testing #productivity #devops

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 23

Free Tokens Are Better Spent Fuzzing Your Own Code Than Benchmarking Someone Else's

#testing #python #ai #opensource

4 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 22

Why the Most Honest Coding-Agent Evaluation Runs on Free Infrastructure

#ai #agents #testing #llm

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 17

Don't Trust a New Model's Benchmarks Until You Run Your Own 30-Minute Smoke Test

#ai #programming #benchmarking #opensource

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 10

A Boundary-Failure Test Plan for Coding Agents You Can Run on Free Model Tiers

#security #ai #agents #testing

5 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 7

A Prompt Regression Pack You Can Run Against Free Model Tiers Before Paying for Anything

#ai #testing #programming #productivity

6 min read

Dakota Wu

Aug 5

A Reproducible Harness for Comparing Coding Agents Before You Trust Their Numbers

#ai #agents #testing #devtools

4 min read

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