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Candidates Begin Registering for 2026 Local Elections

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By ALEX CHEN
| TaiwanPlus
Candidate registration for Taiwan's upcoming local elections began on Wednesday. Both ruling and opposition candidates jumped at the opportunity, with some bringing out political heavy hitters to back their nomination.
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The Day My Lecture Notes Bot Contradicted Itself

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By ALEX CHEN
| DEV Community
I was up at 2 AM, staring at seventeen PDFs that refused to tell me anything. My midterm was in six days, and my notes were a mess of arrows, acronyms, and half-typed definitions. I wanted a chatbot that could answer questions about my own lectures. Not a fancy one. Just something that would take a question, find the relevant slide, and answer in plain language. So I built one. I used MonkeyCode for the free model access and free server space.
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I Seeded Bugs Into My Own PR to Test the AI Reviewer

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By ALEX CHEN
| DEV Community
I was one merge away from shipping. The AI reviewer had already spoken: "No issues found. Looks good to me." And that's when the doubt hit. What does "looks good" mean when the reviewer is a model I've never tested? So I stopped reviewing the code and started reviewing the reviewer. I planted a bug I already knew about, asked the model to find it, and scored the answer. The question was simple: can a free model reviewer catch a bug I already know is there? And if it can't, how would I ever find out?
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