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5 hours ago

Somewhere along the way, many teams quietly adopted a harmful assumption: Technical writers are basically junior developers. They just write instead of code. They can probably handle Git. They should be fine with the same tooling. I’ve seen this assumption pop up everywhere in job descriptions that

Touching GRASS: My Experience at the Stripe Developer Meetup

16 hours ago

The "Alien" Leaves the Ship If you read my last post, you know my struggle. I’ve spent a lot of time feeling like an alien coding in my room, thinking the tech industry was some scary, exclusive club where everyone is a genius and no one is shy. But I made a promise to stop hiding. So, yesterday,

🎙️We’ve Built the Fastest Way to Run LLMs in Production (50x faster than LiteLLM)🔥

Today, AI applications are rapidly becoming more complex. Modern systems no longer rely on a single LLM provider, but must also switch between providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, ensuring high availability, minimal latency, and cost control in production. Direct API integrations or simple

How to build a Frontend for LangChain Deep Agents with CopilotKit!

LangChain recently introduced Deep Agents: a new way to build structured, multi-agent systems that can plan, delegate, and reason across multiple steps. It comes with built-in planning, a filesystem for context, and subagent spawning. But connecting that agent to a real frontend is still surprisingl

My Chrome Tabs Tell a Story We Haven't Processed Yet

I glanced at my browser tabs this morning. Twenty tabs open. Every single one was either Claude or Gemini. Then I remembered what my tabs used to look like just four years ago: Stack Overflow threads, MDN docs, blog posts, GitHub issues. The traditional developer toolkit. The shift happened so gradu

The 15 Git Commands Every Software Engineer Uses (And Why They Matter More Than You Think)

For a long time, I thought Git was just something I had to survive. Type a command. I memorized commands without understanding them. And somehow… I kept using Git every day without ever feeling confident. It took me a while to realize this: all of Git. small set of commands... deeply. And once I sto

The Introvert’s Guide to Networking: How I Stopped Faking It and Started Growing

2 days ago

The "Alien" Phase For a long time, I felt like an alien. I’m naturally reserved. I’m not the loudest person in the room, and for years, I thought that was a defect. I grew up surrounded by people who didn't really get me. I found myself forcing an interest in things the "masses" liked, such as tre

If ChatGPT Writes Your Code, What Are You Getting Paid For?

2 days ago

I used Claude to write a function last week. Took thirty seconds. Would've taken me twenty minutes. So what did I do for the other nineteen and a half? When was the last time you wrote a for-loop from memory? When did you last implement quicksort without checking syntax? Do you remember what year yo

🔥 Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT 5.2 High vs Gemini 3 Pro: Production Coding Test ✅

3 days ago

Okay, so right now the WebDev leaderboard on LMArena is basically owned by the big three: Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic, GPT-5.2-codex (high) from OpenAI, and finally everybody's favorite, Gemini 3 Pro from Google. So, I grabbed these three and put them into the same existing project (over 8K star

Prompt Engineering Is a Symptom (And That’s Okay)

4 days ago

Or: what this book actually teaches if you read it like an engineer, not a magician. Prompt-Engineering_v7-1.pdf After my last post(Prompt Engineering Won’t Fix Your Architecture), a few people replied with variations of: “Okay smart guy, but prompt engineering is a real skill.” Yes. That doesn’t me

If You Feel Stuck in Programming, Read This

5 days ago

If you’re feeling stuck in programming, let me say this first: Almost every developer hits this phase. And the worst part... why you feel stuck. At the beginning, everything feels exciting. Then one day, it shifts. You know some things… but not enough. This is the phase nobody prepares you for. You

CSS Optical Illusions

Over the past week, I have coded a series of optical illusions using CSS only (and some HTML for one of them, but most of them are CSS only). I created a collection on CodePen with 40 of them, although the number may grow in the next few weeks. Many of them play with color effects, some others are a

The Real Cost of a High Learning Curve: Why DeveloperHub Wins for Cross-Functional Documentation

Documentation tools are often evaluated based on features, flexibility, or how “developer-friendly” they feel. But one critical factor is frequently underestimated: learning curve. A high learning curve is not just a personal inconvenience. For growing teams, it becomes an organizational tax paid in

Final Round AI vs Parakeet AI: A Real Developer’s Comparison

If you’re a developer preparing for interviews in 2026, chances are you’ve already met the final boss: The interview itself. Not LeetCode. Not system design diagrams... The actual pressure of explaining your thinking, answering clearly, and staying calm when your brain suddenly forgets what a hashma

The Cloud Exit Strategy: How to Run a Production SaaS for $5/Month

We have normalized paying $100/month for infrastructure before acquiring a single customer. It is time to return to the $5 VPS. Here is the architecture. We need to talk about the cost of "Modern Web Development." If you follow the standard tutorial for building a SaaS in 2026, your bill looks somet

Why I Switched from LiteLLM to Bifrost for Production LLM Systems

When building with LLMs, everything feels deceptively easy at first. An API key, a prompt, and responses start coming in writing, summarization, brainstorming even basic automation feels effortless. It seems like a smooth path until production challenges emerge. Once scaling became a reality, juggli

The 'Senior Developer' is now the new 'Entry Level'

I do think most of us can attest to the fact that, entry level roles are not 'entry' anymore, I do see alot of tech jobs on sites with '2 or more years of experience' (how are we supposed to get that experience if no one wants to hire entry level applicants?!) I check my email like checking the time

Microservices Are Killing Your Performance (And Here's the Math)

The promise: Microservices make your system scalable, maintainable, and fast. The reality: For most systems, microservices add latency, complexity, and failure points without meaningful benefits. Let's look at the actual numbers. The fundamental problem: Microservices communicate over the network. N

Introducing Agentic Chart Extraction

Unlocking Visual Data: Introducing Agentic Chart Extraction At Tensorlake, we're excited to announce a powerful new capability in our document parsing pipeline: Agentic Chart Extraction. Agentic Chart Extraction uses an agentic approach to transform static images into dynamic, usable data, unlocki

Building a Production-Grade AI Web App in 2026: Architecture, Trade-offs, and Hard-Won Lessons

“Anyone can build a demo. Shipping AI to production is a completely different sport.” AI-powered web apps are everywhere right now—but most articles stop at “call the model and render the result.” I’ll walk through how I design production-grade AI web systems today: This is not beginner content. If

Claude Cowork: Architecture, Capabilities, and Usage Overview

TL;DR Understand what Cowork is and how it extends Claude Code’s agentic capabilities to non-coding, knowledge-based work. Learn how Cowork differs from standard chat-based AI interactions and why file access changes the workflow. Get a high-level view of Cowork’s execution model, safety boundari

Bifrost: The Fastest LLM Gateway for Production-Ready AI Systems (40x Faster Than LiteLLM)

If you’ve ever scaled an LLM-powered application beyond a demo, you’ve probably felt it. Everything works beautifully at first. Clean APIs. Quick experiments. Fast iterations. Then traffic grows. At some point, the LLM gateway, the very thing meant to simplify your stack, quietly becomes your bigges

Your GitHub Contribution Graph Means Absolutely Nothing - And Here’s Why

If your GitHub contribution graph disappeared tomorrow, would that make you a worse developer? For years, we’ve been trained — consciously or not — to treat green squares as a proxy for competence, discipline, or even passion. TL;DR: A GitHub contribution graph measures neither productivity, nor ski

Moving on from Terraform CDK