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Essays on AI-assisted development, the self-taught path, and realistic AI capability. Native posts live here; the rest mirror live from Dev.to.

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Sep 9, 2026

Checking A.I. Work is Hard: How I Handle It

You spent a few good cycles, did some troubleshooting, and finally, it works! With A.I., "working" does not always mean "ready to go" though. Something can work but have: Security issues Resource and

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Sep 1, 2026

A.I. Made It… But Can You Explain It?

Imagine: You are in a meeting with a vendor. It is going fine. Then they ask a completely normal question: "So, how exactly does X work?" And you stall. Not because it is a hard question. Because you

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Apr 15, 2026

Product Shipped! But Now What? The Part I Forgot About.

As a developer, I love to build. Planning it out, picking the stack, getting into flow state, watching something go from nothing to a working product. That part is fun. And with AI tools in the mix, t

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Apr 7, 2026

Shipping With AI Without Losing the Plot

The self-taught path taught me one thing the hard way: ship the small real thing, not the big imaginary one. AI makes that lesson more important, not less.

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Feb 11, 2026

Force Multiplier Engineering

AI doesn't replace the engineer — it multiplies one. Here's what that actually means when you're shipping production software.

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Jan 21, 2026

Your AI Coder Will Go Rogue If You Let It (Here's Some Tips to Stay in Control)

Lessons from Building with AI Coding Assistants So I've been building a lot of stuff with AI coding assistants lately—like, a lot. And one thing I keep running into is this: the AI will just... make d

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Jan 20, 2026

A.I. — The Amplifier: From Software Developer to Software Creator 🚀

A.I. will make the bad "badder", the rich richer, the poor poorer, the hopeful more hopeful, the doubtful more doubtful. It's given people the ability to do more with less—and less with more. It is th

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Jan 15, 2026

Part 1 : Building a Game in 30 Hours Using AI — Here's the Actual Timeline

What happens when you treat AI as a development partner instead of an autocomplete tool? I wanted to find out, so I ran an experiment: build a game as fast as possible, prioritizing speed and iteratio

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Feb 27, 2025

Supercharging Your AI Agents with Pydantic: A Developer's Guide 🚀

Table of Contents Introduction 👋 The AI Agent's Output Problem 🤖💬 1. Automatic Type Conversion 2. Clear Error Messages 3. Schema Generation for Guiding AI Outputs OpenAI Function Calling + Pydantic

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Jan 6, 2025

TypeScript Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide (2025) ✅

TypeScript has caused endless debates among developers. Some see it as a bureaucratic roadblock to the freedom of JavaScript, while others hail it as a beacon of light in the trenches of loosely typed

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Jan 5, 2025

📦 How to Create, Publish, and Maintain a Node.js Package (in JavaScript and TypeScript)

Have you ever written a piece of code that could benefit other developers — or even your future self—over and over again? Perhaps it’s a utility function, a library, or a set of reusable tools you fin

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Jan 5, 2025

🚀 Tips for Every Level of Software Developer: How to Thrive in 2025

Sections Introduction: Why 2025? A.I. in 2025: A Quick Overview 📅 We’re standing at an interesting crossroads of A.I., quantum computing, robotics, and security, where each new year accelerates the p

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Dec 26, 2024

Building an App with AI Pair Programming: Lessons from a 7-Hour Sprint

As developers, we're always looking for ways to improve our productivity and streamline our workflows. With the recent advances in AI (and my firm belief that these technologies will be game-changing)

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