I’m a senior ML/Dev with top accounts on freelance platforms. I cannot land a gig because automated platforms have flooded clients’ attention, despite being able to for years. Clients complain as well that they cannot find a workforce because of the AI slop shield.

TechnologyDev.to• 14m ago

We Broke Prod With Cache Misses So You Don't Have To

Today's blog is mostly about the common ways cache misses have happened in our system, and how we resolved them. Cache misses — and the system crashes they cause — are something you will face very often when you implement caching in a system. Until you face them, there's no way to know how the ...

TechnologyDev.to• 15m ago

pgvector Without Embeddings: When a Feature Vector Beats Semantic Search

Almost every pgvector tutorial starts the same way. Take some text, run it through an embedding model, store the resulting vector, and search it with natural language. That is a real and useful pattern, and it is also why most engineers walk away thinking pgvector is a tool for one job: semanti...