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AI’s Real Impact on SDLC: Why Marketing Doesn’t Match Reality
There’s a growing disconnect between what AI companies are promising and what developers are actually experiencing.You’ve probably seen the headlines: “10x developers,” “end of software engineering...
OpenAI*Cursor
Project Management
Agile Methodologies +4 more 
Move Fast and Break Things, or Be Left Behind by Your Competitors
The Tuesday Morning Slack Message That Could Have Been Any TuesdayPicture this: It’s 9:47 AM on a Tuesday. A deployment went sideways over the weekend. A customer-facing feature is broken. Someone’s...
DevOps
Docker
AWS +1 more 
Technical Leadership
Team Building +6 more 
Eight Essential Tips for AI Coding in 2026
AI coding assistants have gone from novel curiosities to essential productivity tools in just a few years. But here’s the thing: most developers are still using these tools like glorified...
Architecture Planning
Developer Experience +3 more 
Fine-Tuning and RLHF: Making Transformers Actually Useful
IntroductionLook, I’ll be honest with you. When I first started diving into large language models, I was blown away by the transformer architecture. The self-attention mechanism? Brilliant. The...
PythonOpenAI
Technical Communication
Presentation Skills
The Transformer That Changed Everything: A Deep Dive Into the Architecture That Powers Modern AI
One of the things that deeply fascinates me about the field of Software Development is that we get to witness evolution at a very rapid pace right out in the open (thank you open source!!). But every...
OpenAITechnical CommunicationPresentation Skills +2 more 
LLM Verification Loops: Best Practices and Patterns
Why Verification Loops? The Quality Control ProblemBefore we dive into the patterns, let’s talk about why verification loops matter at all.LLMs are indeterministic by design. They’re probability...
DevOps
CI/CD Implementation
Code Review Process
AWS Lays off 14k Workers and Blames it on AI Automation, I call Bullshit.
I believe the layoffs at AWS have less to do with AI automation directly and more to do with their failure to match services like OpenAI and Google in the race to provide AI platforms that just work...
AWSOpenAITechnical Communication
The Future of AI Isn’t a Chatbot: Where the Real Value Lies.
ShitGTP - WAN 2.2 and Qwen ImageEvery tech CEO and C-suite executive right now is absolutely foaming at the mouth with lust for anything labeled “AI,” preferably with a sleek chat box where you can...
Technical Leadership
Technology Evaluation
The Last 20% Problem; Why AI Still Isn’t ‘It,’ Just Another Useful Tool
The biggest issue I see with AI as it stands in August 2025 is that it cannot do the last 20%. If you’re not familiar the 80/20 problem or the Pareto Principle has been frequently referenced by...
OpenAIAgile MethodologiesProject Management +1 more 
Memory and Prompt Management in AI Therapy: An Architectural Overview
Building an AI therapy assistant that feels as natural and continuous as an in-person therapy session requires carefully managing the AI’s memory and prompts. In a real therapy session, a therapist...
OpenAIArchitecture PlanningTechnical Leadership +1 more 
3 Strategies to Combat The Real Danger of Burnout in AI Assisted Software Development
I have increasingly found myself fighting the symptoms of burnout when I sit down to do development work, and have noticed this trend increase the more effective I become using AI tools to assist in...
OpenAI*Claude Code*Cursor +2 more Architecture PlanningTechnical Leadership +1 more 
AI Apps Without Long Term Memory are Useless in 2025
Breaking down the Sliding Window contextIntroductionBuilding an AI Therapy Buddy chat application with long, multi-turn conversations presents a key challenge: how to maintain context and coherence...
Vue.js
AmplifyOpenAI +1 more Technical CommunicationArchitecture Planning
AI Problems Nobody is Talking About
Many tech execs are making bold (perhaps rash?) predictions about how AI is going to help them reduce their workforces.“Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically...
OpenAI*Claude Code*Cursor +2 more Technology Evaluation
Developer Coaching +2 more 
When to Choose between MCP and Custom Tool Calls (AI Developers)
You are a skilled auto mechanic training an assistant to become a mechanic. You likely have two modes of working with the assistant.(generated with ChatGPT)You are replacing a vehicle’s fuel pump, a...
OpenAITechnical Leadership
Resource Planning +1 more 
Extend Faker in Laravel 11
Sometimes it’s necessary to make your testing data appear as close to the production data as possible. In my case, I wanted more predictable and realistic looking email addresses for system users...
PHP
LaravelArchitecture Planning
Prop Drilling is a Code Smell When Used Incorrectly
Prop drilling is considered an anti-pattern in React because it involves passing props down multiple levels of a component tree, even when only a few components need them. This can lead to several...
JavaScript
ReactTechnical CommunicationCode Review Process +1 more 
3 JavaScript Array Sorting Algorithms and When to Use Them
Let’s compare three common JavaScript array sorting algorithms: Bubble Sort, Merge Sort, and Quick Sort. I’ll explain each, provide examples, and highlight when each would be most appropriate.1....
JavaScriptTechnical Communication
You Might Be One Rug Pull Away From Crippling Infrastructure Bills
Somewhere around the early 2010s the hot tech news was companies moving their tech off self managed “On Prem” hardware and migrating to the cloud. It was a bright future with promises of high...
AWSDevOps
FirebaseArchitecture PlanningCI/CD Implementation
RPC; Everything Old is New Again
Possibly since the inception of computing, the paradigm of client to server communication has been an important, sometimes overlooked requirement for distributed computing. From a developer...
The Singleton; a Dangerously Overused Pattern
While the Singleton has its uses, in most cases the drawbacks may be more dangerous than the convenience it provides. If you’re like me you’ve had your share of nightmares about legacy monolithic...
Technical LeadershipArchitecture Planning +4 more 
Software Architecture; When and How to Use the Adaptor Pattern (with examples in PHP)
In the world of electronics (at least if you’re as old as me) everyone is familiar with the solution to a cable that doesn’t fit, an adaptor! Sometimes more commonly called a ‘dongle’ in modern...
PHPArchitecture PlanningTechnical Communication
PHP8’s Nullsafe Operator or “Optional Chaining”
In JavaScript this feature is called “optional chaining” where you can reduce the amount of checks that you need to do by chaining accessors with a ?. For example const street = User.address?.street...
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