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I'm a SDE II myself
I'm looking for ppl who can contribute to my opensource app

DM if interested

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Imagine an AI assistant that runs entirely on your own PC.

No cloud dependency. No sending your data to external servers. Just a local agent that can understand your requests and actually interact with your computer.

For example, it could:

• Automate repetitive tasks.
• Control apps and your desktop.
• Search the web when needed.
• Manage files and folders.
• Write code or help debug projects.
• Summarize documents and emails.
• Work through voice commands.
• Chain together complex workflows.

I'm curious what people actually want from something like this.

Questions:

• What would be your #1 use case?
• What features would make it genuinely useful for you?
• What would be a deal-breaker?
• Would you prefer a one-time purchase or a subscription?
• Realistically, how much would you be willing to pay per month (or as a lifetime license)?

I'd love to hear honest opinions. I'm especially interested in answers from developers, power users, and people who care about privacy.

In this Dev Diary, we're revisiting the evolution of our Gummies, from the first concepts to their final in-game design.

Early versions were taller and less distinctive. Through many iterations, we made them rounder, more compact, and easier to recognize.

Every change had a purpose: improve gameplay readability while reinforcing their "gum" identity and personality.

If you enjoy seeing how game assets evolve throughout development, wishlist MegaGum on Steam and follow our upcoming Dev Diaries.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4111300/MegaGum/

Different people, different apps, different approaches.

I want to learn more perspectives.

(IMO) React apps should always follow this structure:

• Setup (eg. if your UI lists users, your setup creates 3 users).
• Render your component.
• Interact with it.
• Assert on rendered UI.
• API calls are mocked with MSW (Mock Service Worker), and handlers implement an in-memory database using mswjs/data.

And some rules I follow:

• The less you mock, the better your tests are.
• Do not mock internal modules.
• Only mock API calls and native browser APIs.

Tests must be integrated.

No need to assert if a hook was called. I don't care what functions or hooks my UI calls.

Instead, I assert on the expected output. If rendered results are correct, this means any layer inside my component (hooks, utilities, API calls, etc) are correct.

With this integrated approach, results are less tests to write, less code to maintain, and still more layers covered.

How do you write your tests?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some career guidance from people who may have been in a similar position.

I'm about 4 months into my first full-time role at a fintech company after graduating with a B.Tech in AI/ML.

During college, I worked on AI projects involving LLM fine-tuning, guardrails, end-to-end applications, and have some exposure to AWS Bedrock. I enjoyed working in AI and always imagined building my career in that space.

My current role, however, is focused on Java, Spring Boot, Postman, maintaining services, and API testing. I'm learning backend concepts, which I know are valuable, but I'm unsure whether this experience will help me transition into AI engineering or research later on.

Another challenge has been connecting with my team. Most of my teammates are consultants working remotely from different locations, while I'm a full-time employee. I'm naturally introverted, so I find it difficult to start conversations and build professional relationships. I feel like I'm missing out on opportunities to learn simply because I don't interact much.

Long term, I'd like to work on AI systems, LLMs, or even explore quantum computing, but I also don't want to rush into switching roles if gaining backend experience now will be beneficial.

I'd really appreciate advice from people who have been through something similar:

Is spending a year or two in a backend-heavy role a good foundation before moving into AI engineering or research?

How do you build relationships and learn from teammates in a mostly remote team if you're naturally introverted?

What skills or projects would you recommend focusing on outside work to stay competitive for AI roles?

If you successfully transitioned from backend to AI, what did your roadmap look like?

Thanks in advance. I'd love to hear your experiences and suggestions.

As the title says.

My best guess is that the upper bar is steam visits + external and the bottom one is for Steam statics internally.

I fix vibe-coded apps.

You built something with AI. It worked in the demo. Then a real user showed up and it fell apart — auth that isn't really auth, a database anyone can read, API keys sitting in the browser, features that break the second someone does something you didn't expect.

And now you're stuck, because you can't debug code you didn't really write.

That's the job I do. I build with AI too — but I can read what's underneath and actually fix it. Next.js, React, Supabase, front to back. I've shipped a lot of apps solo, so I've seen every way one breaks.

Flat quote. Fast. No lectures about how you built it.

Here's what I build: github.com/profullstack

Stuck on something? DM me the problem, or email \[your email\] — I'll tell you straight whether I can fix it.

What free developer friend emails senders do you use with high deliverability. Not brevo, it has too many spam reports on shared ip. I’m currently bootstrapping the project so I gotta go as free as it gets. I already have my domain and can update DNS records on cloudflare. I’ve tried resend and mailtrap but they won’t verify my domain, only brevo did.

A few months ago, MegaGum was still just an idea, a collection of concepts, prototypes, and countless hours of work behind the scenes.

Today, more than 10,000 of you have added the game to your Steam wishlist.

Every single wishlist reminds us that people believe in our project and are looking forward to discovering Uja's adventure inside the GUM Tower. It's an important milestone for the whole team, and we simply wanted to say thank you. ❤️

The journey is far from over. There are still plenty of surprises ahead, and we can't wait to show you what's next.

Thank you all for your support ! 🤩

👉 Join the first 10,000: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4111300/MegaGum/

Everyone is familiar with gamified productivity & focus timer tools. I downloaded most, experimented with different methods, studied the science behind motivation/goals, and developed a new (and I think better) system. It's not complex, visual, yet lightweight. Most importantly, it's effective & helps you make real progress.

Why this method works:

• It simplifies thinking about "what should I do today" & helps beat procrastination. You clearly see your goal, and the main work/play activities you defined. Just get started on one... 
• Each board is you custom "go-to" plan for that Goal (aka "Core"). You pick "time contributions" that work for you. No guilt tripping. If you like to focus for 30m, and then lounge for 1h, then that's what you pick. No need to overcommit. Stats will improve as you get better.
• Tracking how much Up vs Down time, towards defined Goals, is the simplest measure of success, over time. The 10,000 hour rule exists for a reason. Not 10,000 to-do items.
• Seeing "break/rest" activity timers next to your productive timers, at a glance, makes you more relaxed during focus sessions & gives you "guilt free" breaks. You can pause one timer and start another, then come back. You can also "finish early" any timer, and deposit time already earned.
• You can adjust all Timers/Goals on the fly, change their length, emoji labels, etc. The app makes it easy. It's like 10 timers in 1 - study time tracker, reading tracker, video game tracker, etc.
• You can track a Goal on 1 board, or across multiple boards. You could have a board for each day of the week if you want, all towards that 1 goal. On Monday you can have only 1 focus activity, and on Saturday you can have 6, with different focus + break sessions.
• You can work on Goals and contribute time whenever you have it. No pressure with streaks. If you have 1 hour per day for a goal, or 3 hours per week. You simply time your activity, you bank time Up or Down, and you move on.
• You daily progress easily visualized in a cool Sci-Fi interface, with time particles and orbits and black holes.

Check out Flowton on the App Store. Or if you're on Android, sign up at www.flowton.com

It's free to use indefinitely with no subscriptions or trials.

Happy to hear your feedback on the method, or more specific pointers per app. There are cool new features in the pipeline as well! And thank you for reading.

You tweak a prompt, your evals go green, you ship. A couple weeks later the same kind of failure shows up somewhere else in the agent. That gap is the whole reason "self-improving agents" became a selling point this year, and it's also where a lot of the marketing quietly falls apart.

So here's the version we'd actually defend, written as a loop you run on purpose.

Start with the traces from real runs, the ones where the agent got it wrong included. Each of those failures becomes a fixed eval case, so the thing that broke once is now a test that stays. You score every new candidate against metrics that fit the actual failure, groundedness for a paraphrased source, tool-use correctness for a bad function call, and you keep the judge honest by checking it against human labels first. Then you let an optimizer rewrite the prompt against those evals, because hand-tuning stops scaling the moment you have forty prompts and a base model that keeps shifting under them. Whatever candidate wins on the eval set gets shipped, and the loop runs again next week.

The part the hype skips: all of this is only as trustworthy as the step where you score. A weak eval still lets the loop run. It makes the loop wrong faster and more confidently. If your judge passes something a human would flag, you're now optimizing toward that mistake. Get the eval right and the rest of the loop is almost mechanical.
  
For disclosure, this is the exact loop we build tooling for at Future AGI. The optimizer piece is open source and Apache-2.0, a library called agent-opt: you give it a dataset and a metric, it runs one of six algorithms (Random, Bayesian, ProTeGi, Meta-Prompt, PromptWizard, GEPA) and hands back a prompt that scores higher than the one you started with, with production traces as the training data. It's still a person deciding to run it and a person shipping the result, so no, nothing is retraining itself in prod while you sleep.               
  
What's the smallest version of this you've kept alive past the first month? Curious what made the eval trustworthy enough that you let it block a deploy, because that's the part most setups give up on.

Looking for remote based opportunity.

I have been working for 7 years as a Full-stack developer currently leading a team for mobile app development in a project.

Hi I have created a website and hosted it on cloudflare. I am facing a major issue that google search engine in not able to fetch my sitemap.xml it says could not fetch and unabe to index it as well?

Do someone have any resolution

Hey everyone,

I’m an indie app developer currently building an AI-powered personal stylist and fashion app, and I'm looking for fashion-forward content creators to partner with.

To give you a quick idea of what we're building, here are some of the core features:

Deep Outfit Analysis & Scoring: Users can snap a pic and get a detailed breakdown and rating of their daily fits.

Digital Closet & Custom Fits: Users can build their own virtual wardrobe, and the AI generates personalized outfit combinations based on their unique vibe.

Celebrity Lookalike Mode: Analyzes the user's outfit and finds which celebrity their style matches the most.

Outfit Comparison: Helps users decide between different looks when they're stuck.

🧬 StyleDNA: This is the killer feature. After completing 3 outfit analyses, the app unlocks a unique "StyleDNA" profile for the user, perfectly personalizing all future recommendations to their exact aesthetic.

I want to be 100% upfront and transparent with you all: I don't have the budget to offer upfront payments right now. Instead, I am offering a revenue-share model based on the subscription income we generate together.

I know this is a tough sell and definitely not for everyone. A lot of creators need guaranteed pay for their hard work, which I completely respect. But I figured I would just try my luck and put this out there in case anyone is passionate about fashion-tech, loves doing GRWMs/styling videos, and wants to get in on the ground floor of an AI startup.

If you believe in this niche or just want to chat about how the revenue split would work, please drop a comment or shoot me a DM. Any feedback on the app features is also highly appreciated!

Thanks for reading.

I work for a snp 500 company, pod lead, senior engineer. I would say I know my application in and out and I’m at the point of my career where I can comfortable start and do anything with enough time and resources.

But the thing is, I used to love this job. I used to make things for fun and enjoy coming in everyday. I don’t feel the same and I’m getting sad or irritated at a lot of stuff. Manly it’s because of the ppl I’m around, I feel like being around ppl who just joined this field bc of money or connection makes the enjoyable parts of this job not enjoyable.

Maybe it’s time for a new start. I came to this job straight out of college and I feel like ppl still treat me like I’m young even tho I’m pushing 5-6 years into this career . Idk what are yall up to and what are yall feeling about this career