Alright, folks, Pat Reeves here, dropping into your feeds from botsec.net. It’s March 23rd, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with a particular kind of bot-related headache lately. Not the sophisticated, nation-state sponsored kind – though those are always fun to dissect – but the everyday, slightly-too-clever automated nuisance that’s been targeting one of my side
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, dropping in from botsec.net. Hope you’re all having a solid week and your bots are behaving themselves. Mine? Well, they’re always up to something, which usually means more work for me figuring out what new mischief they’ve stumbled into, or more often, what mischief someone else is trying to pull
PydanticAI vs Haystack: Which One for Small Teams
PydanticAI has 15,652 GitHub stars, while Haystack boasts 24,582. But let’s be honest, stars don’t build projects; they just look pretty on your profile page. If you’re part of a small team trying to figure out which framework to adopt for artificial intelligence projects, these numbers might
After 6 months with LangGraph in production, I’m saying: it’s okay for small projects, but the costs aren’t always upfront.
Let’s get real: I’ve spent the better part of the last six months working with LangGraph for a few projects aimed at conversational AI and automating some backend tasks. We were expecting some straightforward solutions
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 21st, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with a particular problem that I think a lot of you out there in the bot defense trenches are also grappling with. We’ve talked a lot about protecting our bots from external threats – malicious inputs, DDoS attacks, IP
Claude Code vs Continue: Which One for Startups
According to various surveys, over 60% of startups fail due to mismanaged resources and improper tool selection. When it comes to coding assistants, the debate between Claude Code and Continue is heating up. With tools boasting advanced features to transform the development process, it’s crucial to assess
How to Set Up Monitoring with Weights & Biases (Step by Step)
If you’re managing machine learning experiments and still logging everything to spreadsheets or scattered text files, you’re seriously missing out—weights & biases set up monitoring will save you dozens of painful hours and sleepless nights wrestling with disorganized experiment data.
What You’ll Build
Hey everyone, Pat Reeves here, back on botsec.net. It’s March 20, 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with something that keeps me up at night, especially with the way bots are evolving. Forget your basic DDoS. We’re talking about a much more insidious threat: bots that masquerade as legitimate users, not just for a moment, but
Token Management Checklist: 12 Things Before Going to Production
I’ve seen 3 production deployments totally flop this month. All 3 made the same 5 mistakes, and it’s shocking how often straightforward oversights cause chaos in token management. To prevent your hard work from going down the drain, here’s a solid token management checklist that can
How to Implement Caching with vLLM: Step by Step
We’re going to implement caching in vLLM, which has 73,732 stars on GitHub, and believe me, this matters because effective caching can drastically reduce response times and resource consumption in applications that utilize large language models.
Prerequisites