Dev.to·Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Dev.to - Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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The "Triad Protocol": A Proposed Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for AGI Alignment

The Problem: Hardcoding Morality 🤖 The Proposal: A 3-Agent System (The Triad) The Philosopher Agent (Semantics) 📚 •Role: Defines the "Why". •Training: Trained purely on ethics, philosophy, and abstract concepts. •Limitation: It cannot write code or execute actions. It only outputs high-level directives (e.g., "Preserve system integrity without halting critical processes"). The Coder Agent (Syntax) 💻 The Mediator Agent (The Bridge) 🔗 Practical Example: "Digital Pain" Discussion: I

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Excellent post. Clear, thoughtful, and very accurate in capturing how different developer mindsets shape teams and software over time!!!

The 12 Developer Mindsets I’ve Seen in My Career (And What They Teach Us About Building Software) Urvisha Maniar ・ Dec 15 #programming #developer #productivity #ai

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Introducing mcp-tef - Testing Your MCP Tool Descriptions Before They Cause Problems

Introducing mcp-tef - Testing Your MCP Tool Descriptions Before They Cause Problems TL;DR When you build MCP tools, vague or overlapping descriptions cause LLMs to select the wrong tools—or no tools at all. Testing in production frustrates users and damages trust. mcp-tef is an open-source tool evaluation system that lets you test tool descriptions systematically before deployment, catching problems early with real LLM testing, similarity detection, and quality analysis. When you

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Online Doctor Directories: How to Use an Imperfect Tool Without Getting Misled

Most people start their hunt for a clinician online, and this guide to online doctor directories explains why the results can look confident even when they’re incomplete. The problem isn’t that directories are “bad” — it’s that they were never designed to be the single source of truth for your health decisions. They’re closer to a search index: useful for narrowing options, unreliable for making the final call. If you treat them like a shortcut to certainty, you’ll get burned. If you treat them

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The Vibe Coding Paradox Juno Threadborne ・ Dec 12 #ai #productivity #beginners #discuss

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PWAs are underrated. I skipped the $99 Apple fee and the $25 Google fee by adding two files to my vanilla JS game. Now it works offline and installs like a native app. Here's the code 👇

Bulls & Cows Goes Offline — How I Turned My Game Into a PWA (and Skipped the $100 App Store Fee) Cristina Rodriguez ・ Dec 16 #javascript #webdev #pwa #beginners

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Did you know that AI can help reduce the carbon footprint of

Did you know that AI can help reduce the carbon footprint of data centers by predicting and mitigating cooling system anomalies? Traditional cooling systems in data centers often consume a significant amount of electricity, up to 40% of the total energy used. By leveraging machine learning algorithms and sensor data, AI can identify early warning signs of cooling system failures, enabling proactive repairs and minimizing downtime. This approach can lead to substantial energy savings and reduced

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PDK 3.6.0 is out with security patches and more!

PDK 3.6.0 is now available! Validate against Puppet or OpenVox and get loads of security patches in this release. You can download from the Forge: Download Puppet Development Kit Here’s what you need to know: Several updates in this release have been made to address known vulnerabilities: Curl upgraded to 8.16.0: Tackles CVE-2025-9086 and CVE-2025-10148. OpenSSL bumped to 3.0.18: Resolves CVE-2025-9230 and CVE-2025-9232. libxslt removed, nokogiri replaced with libxml-ruby on macOS: Elimina

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How to Detect Browser-as-a-Service Scrapers in 2025

Browserbase just raised $40 million at a $300 million valuation. Their pitch to developers? Run thousands of headless browsers in the cloud with "stealth mechanisms to avoid bot detection." They're not alone. A new category of infrastructure has emerged: Browser-as-a-Service (BaaS). These platforms provide cloud-hosted Chromium instances specifically designed to evade detection. They rotate residential IPs, spoof user agents, strip automation markers, and patch JavaScript APIs. Their entire valu

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How I Automated News Discovery with n8n (439K Views, 0€ Spent)

I'm building https://AKCACHE.io, a managed database service focused on EU digital sovereignty. My marketing depends on catching relevant EU policy news early, but manually scanning news sites daily was killing my productivity. Then I got lucky. I found a German government report about US cloud access and posted it to r/europe. The result: 439K views, 2.9K upvotes, 229 comments - all organic. Zero ad spend. Link to the post I've spent money on ads before. To get even 50K impressions would cost th

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