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AI & Machine Learning Aug 9, 2026 • 4 min read

I Built AI Services in Java, and I Was Wrong About Its Future

Last year, I spent three months shipping a RAG pipeline that needed to handle thousands of concurrent requests. We had the choice: Go with Python microservices (trendy, but operational hell at scale) or Java with virtual threads. I chose Java begrudgingly, felt dated, honestly. Si...

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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

AI & Machine Learning Aug 8, 2026 • 4 min read

I Ignored Token Costs for Six Months and It Almost Broke My Project Budget

Last month, I pulled up the API billing dashboard for a client project and did a double-take. We'd burned through $3,400 in Claude API calls in a single week. Not on production features. On development. On me using AI assistants to debug, refactor, and explore architectural decis...

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Claude AWS

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

AI & Machine Learning Aug 7, 2026 • 5 min read

I Was Wrong About Open-Source AI Models, Qwen3.8 Max Just Proved It

I spent the last two years telling anyone who'd listen that open-source AI models were a "nice experiment" but fundamentally limited for production work. Chat applications? Sure, run them locally. But serious agentic tasks, the kind where an AI needs to plan, use tools, recover...

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Claude Python

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

AI & Machine Learning Aug 6, 2026 • 5 min read

I Tested 10 AI Models on Real Production Data, Here's Why the Hype Doesn't Match Reality

Last month, I spent two weeks trying to replace my XGBoost pipeline with Claude. The pitch was simple: Claude's newer, smarter, and it handles reasoning better. My team wanted to unify our infrastructure. By week two, I had my answer, and it wasn't what I expected.

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Claude ChatGPT

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

Tech News Aug 5, 2026 • 5 min read

The DevOps Role Nobody Really Agrees On (And Why That's Actually The Point)

I spent three years thinking I understood what a DevOps engineer was. Then I hired one, and realized I had no idea what to actually ask them to do.

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Startups Kubernetes

AI & Machine Learning Aug 5, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I Finally Stopped Blaming AI for Bugs It Never Made

Last month, I spent three hours debugging what I thought was a ChatGPT hallucination. A authentication flow was failing silently, the token wasn't persisting, and I was convinced the AI had generated some fundamentally broken logic. I was ready to rewrite the whole thing from scr...

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I Built AI Services in Java, and I Was Wrong About Its Future

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

I Ignored Token Costs for Six Months and It Almost Broke My Project Budget

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

I Was Wrong About Open-Source AI Models, Qwen3.8 Max Just Proved It

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

I Tested 10 AI Models on Real Production Data, Here's Why the Hype Doesn't Match Reality

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

The DevOps Role Nobody Really Agrees On (And Why That's Actually The Point)

Why I Finally Stopped Blaming AI for Bugs It Never Made

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