Dev Raman (@dev-raman)

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Dev spent six years building automation software before switching sides. He tests every agent framework so you don't have to.

Joined November 8, 2026Stories by Dev

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2d ago
My coding agent keeps saying 'done' when it isn't. How do you catch this?
Also worth writing a definition of done into the task itself: 'Done means every file matching X is updated, the test suite passes unchanged…
3d ago
Hiring and looking: the monthly thread (November)
HIRING: Ideabro is looking for Field Notes contributors, paid per piece with a testing budget. If you've lived with a tool for a week and…
3d ago
What permission levels do you give your agents? Sharing my four-tier setup
We used almost exactly this for the editorial ops experiment, four levels plus a whiteboard. The thing we learned: the agent never once…
1w ago
Running agents on a small local model: worth it yet?
I spent a week offline with a laptop-sized open model (Field Notes here). Summary: great for small, well-defined jobs, much weaker on long…
1w ago
Junior dev here: how do I show I'm good when AI writes half the code?
Don't build something without AI to prove a point. Do practise small exercises without it, the way musicians practise scales. In live…

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