📰 Dev.to · Albert Alov
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Dev.to · Albert Alov
1w ago
How react-render-profile-mcp works under the hood - and what it found in a real project
I've been building react-render-profile-mcp for a few months — an MCP server that decodes React...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
1w ago
react-render-profile-mcp v0.3.1 - 4 new diagnostic tools for React Compiler, hydration, Zustand, and state cascades
A few weeks ago I published a post about react-render-profile-mcp — an MCP server that decodes React...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
1w ago
Your AI agent reads tsconfig.json. It has absolutely no idea what it means
Your agent sees "extends": "@tsconfig/strictest" and hallucinates the rest. Here's an MCP server that...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Your AI Agent Just Broke Your React Performance. It Has No Idea
React DevTools Profiler gives you all the data you need to fix re-renders. Your AI agent can't read...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Your AI Agent Hallucinates Tailwind Classes. Here's the Fix
Your AI agent is confidently writing Tailwind classes that don't exist in your...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Your AI Agent Can Read the DOM. It Can't See the Screen.
Here's a test that passes every time: await...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Stop Copy-Pasting Zod Schemas to ChatGPT. Build a Mock Forge Instead.
If you are using Zod for API contract validation in TypeScript, you already know the pain of writing...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
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2w ago
Stop Spending Two Weeks Configuring Playwright. Use a Skeleton Built for AI Adaptation.🤖
Every SDET joining a new project goes through the same ritual. Run npm init playwright@latest. Spend...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Stop Running Your Entire Test Suite. Use the AST Instead.
You just changed one utility function. CI kicks off. 2,000 Playwright tests start running. 45...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Stop Guessing Why Your Tests Flake. Build a Knowledge Graph Instead.
Flaky tests are the silent killers of engineering velocity. One day your CI is green, the next it's a...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2w ago
Stop Copy-Pasting Playwright Traces into ChatGPT. Do This Instead.
If you're an SDET or a frontend engineer, you know the drill. You're sipping your morning coffee...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
1mo ago
We traced an MCP server calling an LLM — both sides, one trace
Last article we opened the MCP black box. One line of middleware, and every tool call gets a span,...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
1mo ago
Every PostgreSQL MCP server eats your context window. Here's how I collapsed 4 into 1.
I have four PostgreSQL environments. Dev, stage, prod, dev2. Each behind different credentials. Prod...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2mo ago
MCP servers are the fastest-growing part of the AI stack. They have zero observability.
Your LLM agent calls a tool via MCP. The tool fails. Your trace shows tools/call search — error....

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2mo ago
Your LLM traces are write-only
You spent weeks building observability for your LLM app. Traces in Jaeger. Metrics in Grafana. Alerts...

Dev.to · Albert Alov
2mo ago
Your AI agent re-sends 80% of your budget every loop
Your ReAct agent runs 15 turns. By turn 10, input_tokens is 87K. You're re-sending the entire...
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