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Don't trust the randomness API: verify drand beacons in your agent in 30 lines

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Agents keep needing a random number that another party can check: picking a reviewer, breaking a tie, sampling a test case, running a small raffle. Math.random() works until someone asks "prove you didn't reroll." drand already fixes this. It's a public randomness beacon run by a group of independe…

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  1. 2026-09-25 04:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Don't trust the randomness API: verify drand beacons in your agent in 30 lines

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