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Dev.to · sm1ck
3w ago
When the LLM Refuses: A Fallback Chain That Salvages Most Refusals
Every production LLM app eats false-positive refusals. A user asks something perfectly fine, the...
Dev.to · sm1ck
3w ago
Inworld TTS Paralinguistic Tags Don't Work — Here's What Does
If you've worked with expressive TTS in the last year you've probably seen the pattern: She...
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3w ago
We Deleted 10 Real Users with a Test-Cleanup Script — RCA
The incident, in two lines On 2026-05-11, a test-cleanup script on HoneyChat...
Dev.to · sm1ck
3w ago
ChromaDB 0.5 Silently Leaks Memory Until You Set One Env Var
The TL;DR If you run ChromaDB 0.5.x with more than a few hundred collections, set these...
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3w ago
We Measured LLM Prompt Caching in Production — Same Prompt, 0% to 91% Hit Rates
We run an AI companion bot. Every chat turn, the model sees the same ~5K-token prefix — character...
Dev.to · sm1ck
1mo ago
IP-Adapter + LoRA for product catalog rendering — putting shop items on AI characters
📦 Runnable workflow: github.com/sm1ck/honeychat/tree/main/tutorial/04-ipadapter — a ComfyUI...
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2mo ago
Character consistency in AI image generation — where prompts break down and LoRA helps
📦 Training template: github.com/sm1ck/honeychat/tree/main/tutorial/03-lora — a generic Kohya SDXL...
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2mo ago
LLM routing per tier via OpenRouter — when one model doesn't fit all
📦 Full runnable example: github.com/sm1ck/honeychat/tree/main/tutorial/02-routing — docker compose...
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2mo ago
Building an AI companion with persistent memory — Redis + ChromaDB
📦 Full runnable example: github.com/sm1ck/honeychat/tree/main/tutorial/01-memory — clone, docker...
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