AINewsnow

My short-link stats API taught me that 'permanent' links still need someone to remember them

This story is from 2026-10-26. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

I built a short-link creator that hands out permanent URLs with optional TTL expiry. The manage secret comes back once, gating free click stats and deletion. Sounds simple. Then I watched agents lose that secret. The failure mode wasn't the links — it was the amnesia. An agent creates a short link,…

Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-10-26 15:04 · DEV Community — AI
    My short-link stats API taught me that 'permanent' links still need someone to remember them

More stories

  1. Meta plans $95bn stock offering to bankroll AI expansion — Financial Times AI
  2. Anthropic IPO: S-1 Filing Offers First Look at Claude Maker’s Finances — Bloomberg AI
  3. Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers at VP level and below across teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK; its headcount at the end of June was 223K (Bloomberg) — Techmeme
  4. To make AI morally good, tech companies turn to religion. Some say it's not so simple — ABC News Technology
  5. Groundhog Day for AI agents: Prompt caching patterns for using OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  6. Build agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with CDK — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  7. Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization — Axios AI+
  8. Can AI automate Epoch? — Epoch AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →