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AI & Machine Learning Oct 2, 2026 • 5 min read

The AI Agent Tax: Why My Code Gets Dumber Every Week

I realized something frustrating last month. Claude Code had just suggested an error handling pattern that I'd explicitly *not* used in my codebase for the last six weeks. It was suggesting the old way, the way I'd deliberately moved away from. I'd spent an afternoon refactoring t...

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Claude AI Agents

Web Development Oct 2, 2026 • 4 min read

Why Vector Search Made Me Reconsider Everything I Thought I Knew About Search

I built my first search feature in 2015. It was a simple keyword matcher, split the query, look for exact matches in a database table, return results. It worked until it didn't. A user searched for "fast shoes" and got results for "quick footwear" and "speedy sneakers," but not th...

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OpenAI Machine Learning

AI & Machine Learning Oct 1, 2026 • 4 min read

I Built AI Features for Users. Now I'm Wondering What We're Actually Shipping

Last month, I integrated Claude into a production tool at work, nothing fancy, just an assistant feature for document summarization. During code review, a colleague asked: "Does this thing actually think it's conscious?" I laughed it off. But then I read Mustafa Suleyman's essay a...

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Claude UX Design

Web Development Oct 1, 2026 • 5 min read

I Wasted 3 Months Learning AI the Wrong Way, Here's What Actually Worked

I remember the exact moment I decided to "become an AI engineer." It was late 2023, everyone was talking about LLMs, and I had a successful web development background. How hard could it be? I spent the next three months jumping between Andrew Ng's machine learning course, LangCha...

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LLM Python

AI & Machine Learning Sep 30, 2026 • 5 min read

AI Code Review Is Not a Replace-and-Forget Tool, And This Benchmark Proves It

I got burned by an LLM code review last month. We integrated Claude into our PR workflow thinking it would catch the obvious stuff, unused imports, basic logic errors, that kind of thing. A junior dev submitted a change that looked clean on the surface: consolidating an authentica...

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Claude LLM

Web Development Sep 30, 2026 • 4 min read

I'm Done Betting On "Enterprise" Secrets Managers For Small Teams

Six months ago, I spent three days setting up HashiCorp Vault for a four-person team. We spent another week writing deployment scripts, managing encryption keys, and debugging authentication flows. By month two, nobody could remember how to rotate a key without breaking staging....

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AWS UI Design

AI & Machine Learning Sep 29, 2026 • 4 min read

I've Built Platform Engineering Three Times, Here's What Actually Works

Three years ago, I watched my team waste an entire sprint on infrastructure setup. One of our junior devs needed a staging database. He opened a ticket, waited four days, then the ops team provisioned something that didn't match our production setup. By the time we caught the inc...

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JavaScript UX Design

Web Development Sep 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Buying Error Tracking for Problems Error Tracking Can't Solve

I spent three hours last week debugging a scheduled import job that "worked fine" according to our error tracker. The Sentry dashboard was clean. No exceptions. No alerts. But the job hadn't actually run in six hours, and we only noticed because a client called asking where their...

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JavaScript

AI & Machine Learning Sep 28, 2026 • 5 min read

When AI Attributes Its Own Work, Who's Actually Honest?

I was reviewing a pull request last week where a junior developer had written a commit message claiming they'd "refactored the authentication flow," when in reality they'd copy-pasted a Claude snippet and made three tweaks. The code worked. The message was technically true. But i...

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Claude LLM

Web Development Sep 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Cloud Composer Costs Too Much, So We Built It Ourselves on a $20 VM

I spent two weeks last month arguing with our DevOps team about whether we should migrate our Airflow setup to the cloud. The conversation went in circles: "Cloud Composer is managed, so it's safer." "But we're paying $350/month for something that just schedules tasks." "Yeah, bu...

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Python Machine Learning

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The AI Agent Tax: Why My Code Gets Dumber Every Week

Why Vector Search Made Me Reconsider Everything I Thought I Knew About Search

I Built AI Features for Users. Now I'm Wondering What We're Actually Shipping

I Wasted 3 Months Learning AI the Wrong Way, Here's What Actually Worked

AI Code Review Is Not a Replace-and-Forget Tool, And This Benchmark Proves It

I'm Done Betting On "Enterprise" Secrets Managers For Small Teams

I've Built Platform Engineering Three Times, Here's What Actually Works

Stop Buying Error Tracking for Problems Error Tracking Can't Solve

When AI Attributes Its Own Work, Who's Actually Honest?

Cloud Composer Costs Too Much, So We Built It Ourselves on a $20 VM

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