# AIDevInsider

> Developer-focused tech news: software, AI/ML, cybersecurity, cloud & careers.


## Posts

- [Python Interview Questions: 15 Proven Painful Traps Exposed](https://aidevinsider.com/python-interview-questions/): These Python interview questions cover the 15 traps that actually separate candidates in 2026 — mutable defaults, the GIL, generators, __slots__, decorators and asyncio — each with the exact code, measured results, and the answer that lands.
- [LangGraph Tutorial: 5 Proven Steps to Fix a Painful Agent](https://aidevinsider.com/langgraph-tutorial/): This LangGraph tutorial rebuilds a fragile prompt chain into a stateful agent: StateGraph nodes, a tool-calling loop, and a checkpointer for memory, with the exact Python code.
- [Figma Dev Mode: 7 Proven Fixes for a Painful Dev Handoff](https://aidevinsider.com/figma-dev-mode/): Figma Dev Mode eliminates the most painful parts of design handoff. This hands-on guide covers 7 tricks developers actually use -- from the Inspect panel and section statuses to Code Connect component mapping and the figma dev mode MCP server setup.
- [Cloud cost optimization: 7 proven fixes for a painful AWS bill](https://aidevinsider.com/cloud-cost-optimization/): Cloud cost optimization is failing most teams. Flexera's 2026 report found 29% of cloud spend is wasted - the first increase in 5 years. This hands-on AWS audit found $1,385/month in savings using Cost Explorer, rightsizing, Savings Plans, Graviton, and Infracost in CI. All CLI commands tested and real.
- [Cursor vs Claude Code: 7 Proven Tests Reveal Painful Gaps](https://aidevinsider.com/cursor-vs-claude-code/): Cursor vs Claude Code both start at $20/month, but 7 real hands-on tests expose painful gaps in context handling, token efficiency, and team pricing for 2026 developers.
- [PSSA: 7 Proven Reasons This Rust LM Is Painful to Ignore](https://aidevinsider.com/pssa-7-proven-reasons-this-rust-lm-is-painful/): PSSA (Plastic State-Space Architecture) is a non-transformer language model built from scratch in Rust. I cloned, compiled, and ran it -- benchmarks show 12x faster inference and lower perplexity than a matched transformer. Here is what the numbers actually mean for developers.
- [How to jailbreak PS5: 5 proven, painful facts about Relapse](https://aidevinsider.com/how-to-jailbreak-ps5/): How to jailbreak PS5 just got a public answer: the Relapse exploit chains a WebKit JSC memory leak with a FreeBSD kernel race condition for full kernel r/w on firmware 7.00 to 13.60. 5 proven, painful technical facts every developer needs to know.
- [Claude Code Hooks: 7 Fixes for a Painful Setup](https://aidevinsider.com/claude-code-hooks-config/): I run Claude Code hooks daily. This is the exact settings.json I use, the PreToolUse block that stopped an rm -rf, and the failure modes that cost me an hour.
- [Remote MCP Server: 5 Fixes for a Painful Migration](https://aidevinsider.com/remote-mcp-server-on-aws-goes-stateless/): I migrated my own remote MCP server to the 2026-07-28 stateless spec on AWS Lambda, deleted the session store and the ALB stickiness, and measured what changed.
- [AI Agent Security Risks: 7 Leaks on My Own Machine](https://aidevinsider.com/ai-agent-security-risks-7-leaks-on-my-own-machine/): I audited my own Mac for AI agent security risks after the Netwrix and GitGuardian 2026 research. The plaintext token file was absent, but 573 Claude Code transcripts held AWS keys and bearer tokens.
- [Oracle Layoffs 2026: What 546 Cuts Reveal About Developer Jobs](https://aidevinsider.com/oracle-layoffs-2026-developers-job/): Oracle layoffs 2026 hit 546 cloud engineers even as cloud revenue doubled. Here's what the WARN data reveals about developer jobs, the India impact, and how to protect yours.
- [Your coding agent has a kill switch in its permissions, and mine was off](https://aidevinsider.com/your-coding-agent-has-a-kill-switch-in-its-permissions-and-mine-was-of/): A Claude Code agent ran terraform destroy and wiped 2.5 years of production data. I checked my own machine and found the exact setting that makes it possible. Here is the fix.
- [What an LLM gateway actually does for a coding agent](https://aidevinsider.com/what-an-llm-gateway-actually-does-for-a-coding-agent/): Model routing for coding agents is sold as intelligence but is mostly plumbing. I run a fallback chain in my own setup; here is what an LLM gateway actually buys you and what it does not.

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- [About](https://aidevinsider.com/about/): About AIDevInsider AIDevInsider is a developer-focused technology publication covering software development, AI and machine-learning tools, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure, UI/UX and design, and the technology job market — with a particular focus on the Indian developer community alongside global trends. We don’t rewrite press releases. Every article is built from hands-on testing, multiple primary sources, and a clear “what this means for you” takeaway for working developers. Who writes this Siddhesh Kabra is a Full-Stack Gen-AI Developer with 3+ years of experience building intelligent, scalable applications, from multi-agent AI platforms to production-grade full-stack systems. He is based in Pune, India. He currently works as a Software Engineer at MetLife, building enterprise-grade web applications and backend services with React, Next.js, Java, and Spring Boot for high-traffic insurance and financial platforms. Previously, as a Full-Stack Gen-AI Developer at NeuralArc, he architected Helium, an enterprise AI agent platform (Python/FastAPI, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redis, Next.js/React), and built Bees, a multi-agent orchestration engine using LangChain and LangGraph with human-in-the-loop guardrails across 50+ tool integrations. His day-to-day stack spans the MERN ecosystem, Next.js, Python and FastAPI, LangChain/LangGraph, AWS (including Bedrock), and PostgreSQL with pgvector. That experience, shipping real AI systems in production, is the lens AIDevInsider is …
- [AIDevInsider — Developer Tech News, AI, Cloud & Careers](https://aidevinsider.com/): Careers & Job Market Oracle Layoffs 2026: What 546 Cuts Reveal About Developer Jobs Siddhesh KabraSeptember 28, 2026Read More Cloud & Infrastructure Remote MCP Server: 5 Fixes for a Painful Migration Cybersecurity AI Agent Security Risks: 7 Leaks on My Own Machine Latest Posts Cloud & Infrastructure Siddhesh KabraSeptember 29, 20264 Views Remote MCP Server: 5 Fixes for a Painful Migration I migrated my own remote MCP server to the 2026-07-28 stateless spec on AWS Lambda, deleted the session store and the ALB stickiness, and measured what changed. Cybersecurity Siddhesh KabraSeptember 29, 20265 Views AI Agent Security Risks: 7 Leaks on My Own Machine I audited my own Mac for AI agent security risks after the Netwrix and GitGuardian 2026 research. The plaintext token file was absent, but 573 Claude Code transcripts held AWS Careers & Job Market Siddhesh KabraSeptember 28, 20268 Views Oracle Layoffs 2026: What 546 Cuts Reveal About Developer Jobs Oracle layoffs 2026 hit 546 cloud engineers even as cloud revenue doubled. Here’s what the WARN data reveals about developer jobs, the India impact, and how to protect yours. AI & ML Siddhesh KabraSeptember 28, 202616 Views Your coding agent has a kill switch in its permissions, and mine was off …

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