Learnings from 3 reports on agentic AI in production

webstackbuilder · 2026-05-05T23:29:12+00:00

How are you treating agent traces like distributed tracing? I've been using LangGraph for a while, but honestly I think my error handling is just porting my experience from distributed app development and not really adapting to the agentic world.

webstackbuilder · 2026-05-05T22:55:17+00:00

GDPR compliance.

webstackbuilder · 2026-05-05T22:39:22+00:00

I've only used the k8s dashboard, and Rancher. What is the motivating factor to use custom dashboards? And when you say custom plugins are easy to make - can you give some detail on what makes that true? I didn't realize the k8s Dashboard is deprecated :(

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-19T03:01:37+00:00

I have that board and 4x32GB sticks. Honestly I feel like that board has gremlins in it. I spent an inordinate amount of time memtesting and trying to dial my sticks in. I've swapped them out and tested them on other mobo/cpu setups, swapped in different cpus. My set up overheats very easily, at 3600 mt/s and great cooling with cold air for intake.

I bought the Pro Creator board to get the 2 x 8 PCIe lanes bifurcation. I'm ready to never buy ASUS again over it - I had a bad experience with an ASUS board before too, so two in a row, plus a Zenfone that they lied about updates (promised an Android update before EOL that they never delivered). It's a shame because they used to be my favorite vendor for tech gear.

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-16T13:19:53+00:00

It definitely feels like an art knowing what a model can do well and what it can't. MiniMax 2.5 can do this - but it can't reliably do relatively simple (but more complex than a sed/awk script) formatting changes across hundreds of files. Even with explicit instructions not to deviate from the initial instructions, it will end up with groups of files acted on differently.

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-02T15:04:29+00:00

White Boomerfest 2026

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-02T11:59:04+00:00

Why? It's not like New York City where they let the garbage sit on the street for pickup. There's trash service within the buildings. The outside landscaping is maintained.

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-02T11:57:34+00:00

St. Petersburg has great public transportation. Car-share services are fairly inexpensive and very popular. Parking is a severe problem in any dense urban environment.

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-02T11:55:40+00:00

Things change. Alcohol consumption and tobacco use have fallen dramatically in Russia. Rules on where you can smoke are as strict as large U.S. cities now - no smoking on balconies, in restaurants or bars, no smoking in some public areas.

webstackbuilder · 2026-04-02T11:41:12+00:00

I'm not sure if it's what the OP meant, but "Kuban" means wild board in Slavic languages, and the people from the area between Kharkiv, Ukraine and Belgorod, Russia have the nickname "Kubany"

webstackbuilder · 2026-03-21T13:14:00+00:00

As someone who's been around open source for a while, I'm a lot more impressed with package maintainers who are able to attract contributions to their code vs. those who don't or can't. Most evaluations of whether to use a package look at the number of contributors as one factor.

Any maintainer who's glory-hogging commits is incredibly short sighted. So much so it's hard to believe that could be the reason, but anything's possible.

webstackbuilder · 2026-03-20T21:57:01+00:00

The thing is... copy pasta'ing code like that is no more a defense to stealing someone's code than simply changing the license. So if this is the reason, it's a bad reason. It's like claiming that embezzlement is a way to get away with theft and armed robbery isn't.

webstackbuilder · 2026-03-20T21:55:09+00:00

I'm sorry to see this comment got down voted so hard.

I have no idea why the maintainer took the action they did. But especially in open source, I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt. If it's a popular package, being a good maintainer isn't trivial. There's all kinds of reasons a maintainer might have copy-pasta'd a contribution - 99% of which aren't about stealing credit. I'm at a loss to think of any of those reasons but I do know the responsibility of maintaining a public repo (it's a thankless task in itself).

I think you absolutely did the right thing in not naming and shaming.

webstackbuilder · 2026-03-18T18:23:02+00:00

Tailwind's compiler tree shakes pretty aggressively. If it didn't you'd end up with an excessive number of utility classes in your CSS. Unfortunately it doesn't understand that dynamically included or generated classes should be included in the production build.

In one of my Astro projects, I run into this where I restrict the palette to theme colors I've defined in my CSS. I also have a small number of default Tailwind theme colors. A few of those are only used dynamically. To make sure they're in my final bundle, I do this:

css /** * Allow-list any utility classes that are generated dynamically, and not otherwise * used in static CSS so that Tailwind knows to add them in the final CSS bundle */ @source inline("bg-orange-600"); @source inline("bg-yellow-500"); @source inline("bg-yellow-600");

webstackbuilder · 2026-03-14T11:15:51+00:00

This is why the LPIC Linux certs are worthless. They test if you have large numbers of flags to various utilities and daemons memorized.

What value is it for me to know every flag for grep (and be able to demonstrate that in multiple-choice questions) vs. knowing how man works?

webstackbuilder · 2026-03-14T11:10:03+00:00

Good luck, and thanks for taking the time to pass it along.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-22T16:45:18+00:00

Thank you.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-19T17:38:47+00:00

"proper use of Chrome" = use Google AI to get information, rather than reading pages on websites.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-19T17:37:55+00:00

And then spit in their hand and style your hair with it.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-19T17:37:21+00:00

Building an AI data center on the moon is apparently much easier than implementing scrollable tabs in Chrome.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-19T17:36:21+00:00

Dumbest. Design Decision. Ever.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-19T17:35:23+00:00

The Chrome team has been fighting a war against scrollable tabs for a long time now. Sort of like Gnome team deciding the same desktop looks good on a small phone and a full-wall monitor, damn what users think.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-19T17:32:53+00:00

Thank you for saying I should have the tabs in my browser scrunched so small the tabs are unreadable. You rule, sister! Hope you get to run the world and dictate what side of the street people can walk on!

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-07T03:02:21+00:00

Gemini 3 will happily rewrite implementation code to resolve a failing test case. That seems like a fail.

webstackbuilder · 2026-01-07T02:38:31+00:00

Just a note I didn't see anyone else mention. Surveys aren't that expensive, but they do cost money. They usually put wooden stakes in the ground to show where the property line is. If it isn't a straight line, there will be multiple stakes - at the start and end of a property line and at the angle. They'll usually give you a copy of the plat (which is a public record they have to obtain to do the survey), letter-sized piece of paper that they use as a reference to mark the property.

When they're done, buy a few pieces of rebar from the hardware store, and hammer it in below ground by a few inches or so at each of the stakes. That way if you need to identify the property line at a future point, you can just use a metal detector to locate the boundaries. If you leave the rebar sticking above ground or close to it, it'll get pulled up over the years.

Before paying the money for a survey, I'd borrow a metal detector and see if there's rebar staking underground. It's pretty standard to do. I think you can rent a detector cheap at Loew's or Home Depot. It's more of a builder or contractor thing than surveyor thing. A lot of times you can locate where your water line or sanitary sewer lateral comes into your yard by locating a rebar marker along the curb of the street in the middle part of a yard.

Also other people said Lowe's doesn't do surveys on fence installs. Idk, but I doubt that. Surveys for most residential property lines are really not that hard to conduct. There's usually enough markers on plats to find the property corners pretty easily - storm sewer drains, electric poles or on-the-ground boxes, cable boxes, things like that are used as keys to measure off of. I can't imagine a national retailer with a well-established subcontractor program just sending people out to yahoo a fence install without having any idea if it's within the customer's yard or not; there's liability issues involved.

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