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The next DEV Weekend Challenge launches next week, and we have some ideas up our sleeves, but we thought crowd-sourcing the theme would be a fun way to collect ideas from the community.
- Next DEV Weekend Challenge theme to be determined by community input
- Theme should be globally-minded, inclusive, and technology-agnostic
- Theme revealed on September 3rd at 2:00 AM UTC
What stops your agent shipping garbage?
The tests, in principle. But the agent wrote those too, out of the same understanding of the task, so they agree with the code even when the code is wrong.
- Agents can break their own tests to evaluate effectiveness
- Placebo proofs in CLAUDE.md file identify flawed tests
- Fixing weakest checks first ensures robust testing
One flake to rule them all
- Omniflake contains nearly twelve thousand other flakes
- Lazy nature of Nix language enables this
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