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I build small automation tools and write about what they break on: runs that report success holding 27% of the data, guards that pass while no longer guarding. Every number comes from my own runs.

Japan Joined on Aug 1, 2026 https://apify.com/aiqlabs

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Ai-Q Labs (independent)

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 18

A default MCP connection hands an agent 11 tools. None of my 23 Actors is one of them.

#mcp #ai #llm #webdev

10 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 18

I pinned my Actors to the MCP URL, the way the docs recommend. The agent lost every way to see what a call costs.

#mcp #ai #devops #webdev

7 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 18

I removed the under maintenance label from my Actor twice. It came back in four hours, then in one.

#webdev #devops #automation #apify

9 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 18

I gave my Actor a GitHub MCP connector. It could see 44 tools and use 4.

#mcp #ai #api #webdev

15 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 18

I connected my audit Actor to Claude, and it audited three packages nobody asked for

#ai #mcp #automation #webdev

26 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 18

My Actor ranked #1 in an agent's search. No one else's agent could see it at all.

#mcp #ai #agents #webdev

10 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 11

I had never read my own Actors the way an agent reads them

#ai #mcp #agents #webdev

12 min read

Ai-Q Labs for Apify

Sep 11

prefill and default look the same in Console. Only one of them lets an agent skip your required field.

#mcp #ai #webdev #tutorial

9 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

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Aug 22

My screener recommended every job it could not read

#devchallenge #bugsmash

4 min read

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Aug 22

I paginated by 100 and lost 39 of 422 rows. At 99 and 101, nothing was missing.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

10 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

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Aug 21

The checker said 9 of 9. Three links in the file were already 404.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

11 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

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Aug 21

I wrote two fixes for the same race condition. Gemini told me only one of them was real.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

10 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

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Aug 20

The error said "Something went wrong." The request returned 200. The rate limit was counting my retries.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Ai-Q Labs

Aug 17

Gemini gave me three ways past an API's offset ceiling. Two were wrong. The third was worth 17,522 rows.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Ai-Q Labs

Aug 17

My collector reported success. It had 27% of the data.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

7 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

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Aug 17

I spent 11 days optimizing a search ranking that only I could see

#devchallenge #bugsmash

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

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Aug 17

My security hook silently stopped guarding. The bug was one line of encoding.

#devchallenge #bugsmash

6 min read

Ai-Q Labs

Aug 1

I used the Hacker News API to check 5,000 old links. 34 domains are now unregistered.

#showdev #api #webdev

4 min read

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A default MCP connection hands an agent 11 tools. None of my 23 Actors is one of them.

I pinned my Actors to the MCP URL, the way the docs recommend. The agent lost every way to see what a call costs.

I removed the under maintenance label from my Actor twice. It came back in four hours, then in one.

I gave my Actor a GitHub MCP connector. It could see 44 tools and use 4.

I connected my audit Actor to Claude, and it audited three packages nobody asked for

My Actor ranked #1 in an agent's search. No one else's agent could see it at all.

I had never read my own Actors the way an agent reads them

prefill and default look the same in Console. Only one of them lets an agent skip your required field.

My screener recommended every job it could not read

I paginated by 100 and lost 39 of 422 rows. At 99 and 101, nothing was missing.

The checker said 9 of 9. Three links in the file were already 404.

I wrote two fixes for the same race condition. Gemini told me only one of them was real.

The error said "Something went wrong." The request returned 200. The rate limit was counting my retries.

Gemini gave me three ways past an API's offset ceiling. Two were wrong. The third was worth 17,522 rows.

My collector reported success. It had 27% of the data.

I spent 11 days optimizing a search ranking that only I could see

My security hook silently stopped guarding. The bug was one line of encoding.

I used the Hacker News API to check 5,000 old links. 34 domains are now unregistered.