Spec-driven development with AI agents: constitutions, checkpoints, and handoffs
AI coding agents are strangely lopsided. Hand one a well-scoped task and it writes better code, faster, than I do. Hand it a large feature, the kind t…
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How AI Is Transforming Software Development Workflows in 2026
How AI Is Transforming Software Development Workflows in 2026 By 2026, the question is no longer whether AI is useful in software development, but how…
The Odoo Requirements Checklist That Decides How Much Custom Code You Write
Requirements gathering on ERP projects gets treated as a business-analyst chore that happens before the interesting work starts. It isn't. It's the ph…
Building My Developer Portfolio: More Than Just a Personal Website
A portfolio is often the first impression a recruiter, hiring manager, or fellow developer gets. Instead of treating it as a static resume, I wanted t…
Mastering Claude Code Configs: `CLAUDE.md` vs `.claude/rules/`
When configuring Claude Code (or Claude-driven AI coding assistants) in your projects, structuring your instructions efficiently is key to getting acc…
No-Code, Hybrid, or Custom Code? A Practical Decision Framework
Part 2 of the DEV series: The Real Boundary Between No-Code and Engineering In Part 1 of this series, I argued that developers do not necessarily disl…
Solon AOT & Native: Three Phases to a GraalVM Native Executable
When you hear "Java native compilation with GraalVM," you probably think of configuration hell — endless JSON metadata files, trial-and-error reflecti…
Why I Believe Vibe Coding Is Becoming a Real Engineering skills
For a long time, I thought vibe coding was simply about asking AI to generate code. The more I build, the more I realize that's only a small part of i…
Lesson 3 - Architecture: Learn to organize your thoughts
AI takes the path of least resistance. That one characteristic explains most of what changed for me about architecting a system once an agent was in t…
Building an AI Operating Layer - Episode 1: Why I Didn't Start Sooner
Building an AI Operating Layer Episode 1 Why I Didn't Start Sooner Most engineering projects begin with an idea. This one began with a question. For m…
AI-Driven Development: Transforming Software Workflows in 2026
AI-Driven Development: Transforming Software Workflows in 2026 In 2026, the software development landscape has undergone a seismic shift. Artificial i…
Software Evolves Like Ecosystems
One of the biggest mistakes I made early in my career was believing software was something you finished. You gathered requirements. Designed the archi…
Without Exception: How Neander Programs Fail
Neander has no exceptions. No try , no catch , no finally . A call to one of the host application's APIs returns something closer to Rust's Result : e…
Why Sanity is the Best CMS for the Healthcare Industry
Introduction The medical industry demands a unique blend of precision, security, and adaptability in content management systems (CMS). From clinical r…
Beyond Autocomplete: How Engineers Can Build High-Impact projects with Agentic AI
Over the past couple of years, AI in software development has quietly crossed a major threshold. What started as glorified tab-completion—handy for fi…
From Idea to Production: How AI Agents Helped Me Build a Real Product
Artificial intelligence is often presented in extremes. Some people believe it will replace software developers, while others dismiss it as an advance…
I ported a knowledge-format (OKF) library to zero-dependency .NET — here's what I learned
If you can cat a file, you can read the knowledge base. If you can git clone a repo, you can ship it. No vector database to stand up, no proprietary e…
Surprisingly necessary explanation of Python venv
There is a strange phenomenon in the Python world. People train neural networks, automate infrastructure, write complex tools and maintain application…
AI-Driven Development: How Machine Learning is Reshaping Software Workflows in 2026
AI-Driven Development: How Machine Learning is Reshaping Software Workflows in 2026 The software development landscape of 2026 looks almost unrecogniz…
Empire LLM for Codex: AI Code Review Without the Chaos
The single principle that makes this plugin worth installing A clean principle beats a clever feature every time. Empire LLM for Codex ships one: exte…
I built a CLI that tells you if your codebase fits an LLM's context window
Every time I wanted to paste a whole project into Claude or ChatGPT, I ended up guessing whether it would even fit — and often found out the hard way,…
Getting Started with Twinify: A Free, Open-Source Object Mapper for Modern .NET
Lightweight. Familiar. MIT Licensed. Built for .NET 8, 9, and 10. Following AutoMapper's recent licensing changes, many .NET developers have started l…
From Prompting to Production: A Practical Framework for AI-Assisted Software Development
How structured workflows, context engineering, and human oversight can transform AI from a coding assistant into a true engineering partner. Introduct…
MCP vs. Agent Skills: A Decision Framework for Context Engineering
MCP vs. Agent Skills: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need? As AI agents evolve beyond basic chat interfaces into fully autonomous systems, dev…
Why your AI code always ends up producing "technical debt" (and how GEF solves the problem)
Introduction: The Paradox of the Amnesiac Assistant It's an experience we've all had: you start a new project with a cutting-edge AI like Cursor, Wind…
How I'd Design a Kafka-Based Payment Event Pipeline from Scratch
Architecture walkthroughs tend to show you the polished version — the diagram that survived a whiteboard, cleaned up after the fact. What they skip is…
The Factory Pattern: Simplified
The Problem You're building a system that supports multiple databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. Different services in your application need to cre…
ASP.NET Core mesCode
In this backend development guide, we are setting up a secure RESTful API endpoint using ASP.NET Core Web API. 1. Database Configuration (appsettings.…
In an AI Builder + AI Reviewer World, What Should Developers Actually Review?
TL;DR If you frame yourself as the manager with final accountability, it becomes clearer where human review is necessary in an AI-driven workflow. You…
AI Can Generate Code. The Harder Problem Is Deciding What to Build.
The moment a project really stalls A project can feel surprisingly close to moving forward and completely stuck at the same time. There is an ide…