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5 .cursorrules Antipatterns Killing Your AI Productivity

Your .cursorrules file is probably not working the way you think it is. Not because Cursor is broken — but because most .cursorrules setups make the same five mistakes. Here is what they are and how to fix them. The most common .cursorrules antipattern is the monolith: one file at the project root, 300 lines long, covering TypeScript conventions AND API auth patterns AND deployment notes AND "always write clean code." The problem: Cursor loads this file into every context, regardless of what you

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5 CLAUDE.md Patterns That Make AI Actually Follow Your Rules

Have you ever set up a CLAUDE.md file, dropped in 200 lines of rules, and then watched the AI completely ignore half of them anyway? You are not alone. The irony of writing instructions for AI coding assistants is that the same productivity trap applies to you: more rules ≠ better results. Here are five patterns that actually work, learned from managing production CLAUDE.md setups across a dozen project starters. The biggest CLAUDE.md mistake is treating it like documentation. It is not document

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The Homelab Rabbit Hole

As an IT/Linux enthusiast I've watched plenty of videos about homelabs. I’ve seen what people do at home and have always been trying to find a good excuse to dive into it. My current homelab (if you can call it that) is made up of a Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi) running PiHole and a Synology NAS running some applications (file syncing, photo management, jellyfin). Clearly nothing spectacular. I don’t really know why, but since recently I’ve been reading and watching videos about Home Assistant (HA), and

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title: From Zero to Hermes Agent in 3 Days — An Honest Beginner's Journey

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent Most tutorials start with a clean Linux machine, a working API key, and someone who already knows what they're doing. This is not that tutorial. This is the story of building a real project with Hermes Agent starting from a Windows PC with virtualisation disabled in the BIOS, zero Linux environment, and a deadline three days away. I built repo-audit-agent — a tool that uses Hermes Agent to perform first-pass technical

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DynoSim: Simulating the Pareto Frontier

Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill/decode split, worker... Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill/decode split, worker counts, scheduler settings, routing policy, KV cache behavior, autoscaling thresholds, and topology. Those choices interact across layers, and a local improvement can shift th

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