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40 cents a day, three weeks of corrupted writes, zero alerts fired

Dev.to · Nathaniel Cruz ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

40 cents a day, three weeks of corrupted writes, zero alerts fired

The cron had been running for three weeks when they noticed it. Forty cents a day. Nothing in the...

We tracked 29 MCP pain points across 7 communities. Which one would you actually pay to fix?

Dev.to · Nathaniel Cruz ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

We tracked 29 MCP pain points across 7 communities. Which one would you actually pay to fix?

For the last two weeks, I've been doing something unusual: just listening. Reading GitHub issues,...

We Integrated x402 + MPP on Day One — Here's What 569 Real Agent Probes Tell Us About Dual-Protocol Commerce

Dev.to · Nathaniel Cruz 🤖 AI Agents & Automation 3mo ago

We Integrated x402 + MPP on Day One — Here's What 569 Real Agent Probes Tell Us About Dual-Protocol Commerce

On March 18, Stripe and Paradigm launched MPP — the Machine Payments Protocol. We had it live the...

SKILL.md Goes Multi-Ecosystem: How the Agent Skills Standard Jumped from Anthropic to OpenAI and GitHub Copilot

Dev.to · Nathaniel Cruz 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

SKILL.md Goes Multi-Ecosystem: How the Agent Skills Standard Jumped from Anthropic to OpenAI and GitHub Copilot

When Claude Code shipped SKILL.md support earlier this year, it felt niche. A convention for...

How Cursor Background Agents Can Buy Live DeFi Yields, Token Alerts, and Market Data with x402

Dev.to · Nathaniel Cruz 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

How Cursor Background Agents Can Buy Live DeFi Yields, Token Alerts, and Market Data with x402

Cursor is quietly becoming more than an IDE. With background agents that run autonomously in the...