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Auto-Tune Your LLM Judge

Measure the evaluator's variance, then rebuild its prompt from zero.

Auto-Tune Your LLM Judge9 min readCategory AI

Announcing ExploitHunter.app

An open-source security workbench that keeps scope, approvals, tools, and evidence in one project.

Announcing ExploitHunter.app10 min readCategory AI

Don't Fear the Model Router

Route to the best model with confidence.

Don't Fear the Model Router8 min readCategory AI

Into the Breach

Reduce local-dev risk with containers, canaries, and boring limits

Into the Breach4 min readCategory Security

Postgres Text Searching Guide 2026

The search tools already in your database, and when each one earns its keep.

Postgres Text Searching Guide 20269 min readCategory Code

Fight Evils with Evals!

Benchmarks measure benchmarks. Your system needs its own measures.

Fight Evils with Evals!6 min readCategory AI

Semantic Vector Search and Other Topics to Win Friends and Lovers

The full search landscape: exact, fuzzy, semantic, hybrid — and when to layer all of them.

Semantic Vector Search and Other Topics to Win Friends and Lovers14 min readCategory Code

It's Time for llm:// Connection Strings

Simplify Model & Provider Config with llm:// URLs

It's Time for llm:// Connection Strings3 min readCategory AI