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Web Development Aug 12, 2026 • 5 min read

Why Your AI Visibility Score Is Probably Lying to You (And How I Started Tracking It Properly)

Last month, a client asked me if their website was showing up in ChatGPT's answers. I confidently told them I'd check their "AI visibility." I spent 20 minutes running the same query three times, getting different results each time, and then... I had no idea what I was actually m...

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Claude Startups

Web Development Aug 11, 2026 • 4 min read

Model Distillation Isn't Magic, It's Expensive Pattern Copying

I've been following the AI drama around Moonshot's Kimi, and like most developers, I initially accepted the surface story: you take a smart model, pour its outputs into a cheaper one, and boom, you've got a budget version of the expensive thing. Except that's completely wrong, and...

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Claude OpenAI

Web Development Aug 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Dismissing Java for AI, I Was Wrong About This

Every time someone mentions building an AI feature at work, my brain defaults to Python. It's almost automatic. I've spent the last few years watching the AI explosion happen in Python-first communities, and I've been quietly reinforcing this bias in my own projects. But last wee...

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Claude Python

Web Development Aug 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Bolting AI Onto Your CMS, Make It Part of the System

I spent three hours last week moving content between five different tools. A writer drafted in ChatGPT. Then it went into our headless CMS. Then localization happened in a separate app. Then SEO metadata got filled in by hand. Then a developer like me had to wire up the final out...

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ChatGPT

Web Development Aug 8, 2026 • 4 min read

AI Didn't Replace Me, But It Did Change How I Think About My Job

Three months ago, I caught myself staring at a pull request that an LLM generated. It was technically correct. The logic was sound. The performance was acceptable. And I realized I had absolutely no idea if it was *good* or just… passable. That moment stuck with me more than any...

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Claude ChatGPT

Web Development Aug 7, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Clicking Through AWS Console: Why I Finally Automated My RAG Pipeline

I spent three weeks last year building a "Chat with PDF" prototype. Manually. Through the AWS Console. Click by click, creating S3 buckets, configuring OpenSearch Serverless, wiring up Bedrock Knowledge Bases, the whole circus. It worked fine for a proof of concept, but then my ma...

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AWS LLM

Web Development Aug 6, 2026 • 4 min read

The Supply Chain Attack Nobody Tells You About: How I Learned npm ci Isn't Actually Clean

I was debugging a production incident last year when a colleague casually mentioned, "Yeah, we're running `npm ci --ignore-scripts` now. Should be safe." I nodded along, but something in that statement bothered me. We were treating a flag like it was a silver bullet, a get-out-of-...

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Claude AWS

Web Development Aug 5, 2026 • 4 min read

I Finally Did the Math on Self-Hosted AI, and It Changed What I'll Recommend to Clients

Last month, a client asked me the question that's haunting every development team right now: "Can we switch to open-source AI models and cut our API bills in half?" I nodded and said I'd look into it. Honestly, I was expecting to come back with a "technically possible but not wor...

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Claude AWS

Web Development Aug 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Bootstrap in 2024: Still the Right Choice, or Are We Cargo-Culting?

I spent three hours last week arguing with a junior developer about whether we should use Bootstrap on a new client project. Their argument was straightforward: "It's battle-tested, it's fast to build with, everyone knows it." My counter-argument was equally straightforward: "Tha...

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React

Web Development Aug 3, 2026 • 5 min read

I Pushed Code for Years Without Understanding What Happened Next

I remember the exact moment I realized I had no idea how my CI pipeline actually worked. I was debugging a flaky test in our staging environment, and a senior developer asked me: "Where is this test running?" I said "GitHub Actions." He asked: "On what machine?" Silence. I honest...

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