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Build a Five-File Canary Before You Trust an Agentic Coding Product

Dev.to · Sam Rivera 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Build a Five-File Canary Before You Trust an Agentic Coding Product

Evaluate planning, tool use, correction, context, and stopping behavior with one portable repository.

Test the Copilot Desktop App With a 20-Minute BYOK Exit Drill

Dev.to · Sam Rivera 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Test the Copilot Desktop App With a 20-Minute BYOK Exit Drill

Use GitHub Copilot app availability as a trigger to test whether a desktop agent session leaves portable work.

Build a 30-Line Provenance Log for AI-Generated Code

Dev.to · Sam Rivera 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Build a 30-Line Provenance Log for AI-Generated Code

Keep ownership of ideas and decisions by recording prompts, constraints, tests, and accepted changes in a tiny local tool.

Build the Failure Path Before You Trust an AI Task CLI

Dev.to · Sam Rivera 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Build the Failure Path Before You Trust an AI Task CLI

Wrap any long-running command with a deadline, exit semantics, and a small JSON evidence record before adding dashboards or orchestration.

Sol, Terra, Luna — Three New Models, and Why MonkeyCode Is Asking the Right Questions

Dev.to · Sam Rivera 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Sol, Terra, Luna — Three New Models, and Why MonkeyCode Is Asking the Right Questions

OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 in three tiers. But the real problem in AI coding has not changed.