The Hidden Cost of AI Programming (and How to Use It Mindfully)
“AI didn’t break your code. You just trusted it too much.” AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are changing how we write software. You type a com…
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Reading list (21st to 27th April)
What I am currently reading These are the current online posts that I enjoyed reading and made me think. AI If you are not the model, you are the harn…
The Real Problem With AI Writing All Our Code
AI might promise speed and productivity. But it comes with serious issues. The other day I found a senior coder quitting AI coding after finding out t…
🚀 Weekly Progress: Building My MERN + Microservices Pizza App (Learning in Public)
This week was all about connecting the system, enforcing code quality, and pushing myself to build like a real engineer — not a tutorial follower. 🔧 W…
Making illegal state unrepresentable
A couple of years ago, I wrote that The Builder pattern is a finite state machine! . A state machine consists of states and transitions between them. …
Why Your Open-Source Coding Model Runs Out of Memory (and How to Fix It)
If you've tried running a large open-source coding model locally — whether it's Kimi K2, DeepSeek, or any of the recent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) heavy…
An AI Benchmark That Tests Real Coding Workflows
Developers face a real choice: pick a coding model or agent based on synthetic benchmarks that look great but do not predict actual project work. The …
AI in docs: Documentation dynamic shift most people seem to ignore
I’ve worked as a senior technical writer for over 6 years. Believe me when I say this: The consumers of documentation have shifted from users/develope…
The Zero-Impact Build: Why Writing Less Code is the Best Earth Day Project
A submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition Let me be perfectly clear right up front: I am not participating for any prize money or category…
How I Use OpenCode, Oh-My-OpenCode-Slim, and OpenSpec to Build My Own AI Coding Environment
Introduction I have never used Claude Code. The reason is simple. Claude Code is too expensive. Even with a subscription, the cost-to-value ratio does…
AI Coding Playbook: Tool Selection, Workflows, and Prompt Templates
This article was originally published on maoxunxing.com . Follow me there for more deep dives on AI-assisted development workflows. Choosing AI Tools …
Beyond CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md: when your coding agent needs a behavior spec
TL;DR: CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are excellent at steering how agents write code. They were never designed to capture what the product promises to do. W…
The AI Coding Assistant Stack That Actually Works in 2026
The debate over whether developers would use AI coding tools is over. By late 2025, that question had been replaced by a messier one: which tools, in …
"Talk to Your Terminal: Building a Voice AI Agent in Python"
Abstract This article presents the design and implementation of a voice-controlled AI agent that accepts spoken commands, transcribes them using OpenA…
Build Your Own "Private Copilot" in 10 Minutes: Ollama, Continue, and DeepSeek-V3
You are paying $20 a month for GitHub Copilot. In our local economy, that is almost 6,000 PKR every single month . You are paying this "cloud tax" for…
I built a personal budget app with React Native here's what I learned
An honest retrospective on building Trya, a personal finance mobile app. From the first commit to production crashes, including architectural choices …