Top Articles of the Day | 29-Oct-2026

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AI & Data Product Programming

AI & Data

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Why Your Agent Memory System Gets Beaten by Raw Retrieval

Dev.to 4 min read 3 reactions

Over the past year, agent architectures have converged on a very specific kind of complexity. If an...

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Before trusting a novelty judge, count the verdicts that move

Dev.to 4 min read 3 reactions

A judge can keep the same accuracy while changing its mind about half the examples. The average looks...

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KV Cache Wars: How Compaction, Quantization, and a Rust Rewrite Are Redefining LLM Serving Economics

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This week in LLM inference: KV-cache compaction and quantization breakthroughs, vLLM's GB300-scale DeepSeek benchmarks, and Anthropic's Rust rewrite.

Product

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6 Things AI Still Can't Do in 2027 — And Why They're Now the Only Skills That Pay

Dev.to 3 min read 18 reactions

For years the advice was simple: learn a language, learn a framework, build a few CRUD apps, get...

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Every Developer Has a Shortcut They’re Too Embarrassed to Admit

Dev.to 3 min read 18 reactions

We all have coding habits we would never recommend in a code review. You know exactly what I'm...

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Mercury 3: When AI Is Fast Enough to Stay in the Loop

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My MSI Claw had a controller problem. I gave Mercury 3 SSH access and described it. About 20 seconds...

Programming

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MQTT Doesn't Have Message Queues. Inside the 2-Byte Protocol Powering Modern IoT.

Dev.to 12 min read 26 reactions

A visual, 10-minute architectural deep dive into MQTT. Learn how the 2-byte binary wire protocol, QoS 0/1/2 handshakes, topic trees, Last Will and Testament, and MQTT v5 Shared Subscriptions actually deliver IoT telemetry under the hood.

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Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it

Hacker News 69 points

CaseCite is an open-source, self-hosted legal RAG caselaw research & document analysis platform. - thomasunise/casecite

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Your Cache Expires. 10,000 Requests Hit Your Database. There's a Smarter Fix.

Dev.to 3 min read 11 reactions

Imagine your application has a popular API endpoint. You cache its response in Redis for 5 minutes...

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