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Jason McCreary explains how he went from using AI for tedious snippets to letting agents handle nearly all coding, testing, and review work. It is a clear account of the guardrails, workflow shifts, and mindset changes that got him there.

Below MySQL 8.0.1, or on a server Laravel misreads, workers reserve jobs with a plain FOR UPDATE and can deadlock on the DELETE. One tinker line shows which lock yours use.

Oh Dear shares hard numbers on how the recent critical PHP vulnerabilities rippled through the ecosystem, with site outages peaking at 18.8 percent and down alerts rising to 25 times the normal level. It is a useful, data-backed snapshot of a chaotic ...

How a slow dependency becomes an outage, and how deadlines, concurrency limits, retry budgets, and jitter protect useful work. A practical deep dive with PHP examples and a controlled overload test design.