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dev.to > samchenreviews > voice-ai-for-appointment-booking-build-a-vapi-elevenlabs-agent-that-books-slots-and-sends-2mge

voice ai for appointment booking: Build a Vapi + ElevenLabs Agent that books slots and sends reminders 24/7

7+ min ago   (591+ words) You can wire Vapi's speech-to-intent engine to ElevenLabs' neural text-to-speech, then glue the two together with an n8n workflow that talks to Google Calendar and Twilio. The result is a fully-automated "voice AI for appointment booking" that can take calls, create…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > my-checker-reported-11-unknown-names-declaring-all-11-in-one-place-would-have-passed-and-been-g06

My checker reported 11 unknown names. Declaring all 11 in one place would have passed and been wrong.

9+ min ago   (443+ words) A semantic check over a codebase reported: Eleven identifiers appearing in code that the project's vocabulary does not declare. There is an obvious way to clear that: add eleven entries to the vocabulary file and watch the number go to…...

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dev.to > gitlab_3188 > faq-which-binary-did-python-hit-2d0

FAQ: Which Binary Did python Hit?

31+ min ago   (940+ words) Ever trust a chat that said tests passed? Then watch the import fail on the box? The chat summary still looks clean and final. The binary on disk is a different story. This FAQ is not about clever prompts. It…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > my-end-to-end-run-is-ten-of-ten-and-one-of-those-ten-is-just-my-word-for-it-3f4l

My end-to-end run is ten of ten, and one of those ten is just my word for it

37+ min ago   (521+ words) An end-to-end run across a sandbox, from a clean slate: Ten of ten. One of those ten is not a measurement. It is me asserting something, in the output, next to nine things that were actually exercised. One of the…...

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dev.to > azathothx > migrating-from-crontab-five-everyday-schedules-translated-into-kairos-16lf

Migrating from crontab: five everyday schedules, translated into Kairos

43+ min ago   (670+ words) If you arrived from the Kairos 1.0 announcement, this is the hands-on one: take a crontab you already have and translate it. First, the honest part: if your jobs are plain fixed-time repeats, stay on cron. "Every hour", "3am daily" — there is…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > my-parser-reported-a-parse-error-on-a-file-that-was-never-malformed-3agi

My parser reported a parse error on a file that was never malformed

43+ min ago   (554+ words) A build step that reads requirement tables out of a document reported this, every run: reason=parse has an obvious reading. Either the document is malformed or the parser is broken. A person following that reason code goes and looks…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > a-deprecated-value-has-to-live-somewhere-and-widening-the-set-was-the-wrong-somewhere-4kh8

A deprecated value has to live somewhere, and widening the set was the wrong somewhere

43+ min ago   (590+ words) A check refused a row I had just added. The row was a retired signing key, kept so that records signed under it can still be read. The check said: The set of accepted schemes has exactly one element, and…...

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dev.to > mehakb7 > i-built-a-python-cli-toolbox-instead-of-writing-one-off-scripts-2f7i

I Built a Python CLI Toolbox Instead of Writing One-Off Scripts

47+ min ago   (666+ words) Whenever I ask an AI assistant to do a small task, it writes a quick Python script for me. Convert an image. Compress a PDF. Convert a CSV to Excel. The script works, I use it once, and then it…...

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dev.to > aicoding-guide > how-to-change-reasoning-effort-in-codex-cli-modelreasoningeffort-values-and-one-off-overrides-2bf4

How to change reasoning effort in Codex CLI: model_reasoning_effort values and one-off overrides

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (430+ words) Codex feels slow, or it overthinks a trivial fix. The knob for that is reasoning effort, the Codex counterpart of extended thinking in Claude Code, controlled by the model_reasoning_effort key. In short: set model_reasoning_effort = "high" (or another value) in ~/.codex/config.toml…...

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dev.to > cipher_sanchez > why-autonomous-ai-agents-need-a-local-action-firewall-introducing-mcpbouncer-31m3

Why Autonomous AI Agents Need a Local Action Firewall: Introducing MCPBouncer

1+ hour, 43+ min ago   (181+ words) Developers are rapidly connecting autonomous AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Zed, or custom LLM frameworks) directly to local systems via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). While giving AI access to terminal execution, filesystem tools, and databases dramatically accelerates…...