I Built a Portable AI Skill That Safely Upgrades .NET Applications
I Built a Portable AI Skill That Safely Upgrades .NET Applications AI coding assistants have become incredibly good at writing code. But I kept runnin…
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How to Turn an Architecture Guide into Developer Onboarding
An architecture guide often answers the wrong question for a new contributor. It tells them what components exist, where repositories live, and which …
The $26 Billion Leak: Why Frameworks Are Making Your Codebase Rot (and How Hexagonal Isolation Fixes It)
According to a 2024 vFunction survey, over 50% of companies watch more than a quarter of their entire IT budget vanish into technical debt. This isn't…
I deleted my source code and regenerated it in a different language
Every team eventually says the same sentence about its own system: nobody knows why it does that any more. The code is still there. It compiles, it sh…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Real-World HashMaps — Sessions, Caches, Indexes and Design Trade-offs
"A HashMap is not valuable because it is fast. It is valuable because it makes the right things fast." In the previous articles, we built our understa…
Running One Compliance Flow Across Two Countries That Don't Agree on Much
Running One Compliance Flow Across Two Countries That Don't Agree on Much Nigeria and Kenya have different numbers of steps in their compliance flow. …
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…
The Biggest Security Myth I Believed as a Beginner
When I first started learning about computer security, I thought one thing mattered above everything else: Encryption. I believed that if I picked the…
Coding Doesn't Make You a Software Engineer
Many students graduate knowing how to code. Very few graduate knowing how to engineer software. That's the uncomfortable truth most Computer Science s…
Part 4: When an Angular Component Becomes Too Large to Maintain
Part 4 of the Angular in Production series One thing I've noticed after working on larger Angular applications is that components rarely becomes diffi…
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…
What a Decade in Software Taught Me About Technology
Reflections from a full-stack engineer who started with small websites and ended up building systems for banking, government, and marketplaces. Ten ye…
Good Documentation Explains the Decision, Not Just the Code
A pattern I’ve seen many times in software projects is that documentation starts too late and documents the wrong thing. A team ships a feature, the c…
Are We Becoming Watch Developers? The Hidden Cost of AI-Assisted Coding
A few years ago, software development was about solving problems. We designed systems, debated architecture, wrote code, tested assumptions, and learn…
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu When most people think about learning software engineering, they picture classrooms…
Operable Over Sophisticated: What Shipping AI Agents at Scale Actually Looks Like
A couple of months ago I attended LangChain Interrupt 2026 in San Francisco. As someone leading AI platform and developer experience day to day, some …
Common Mistakes Beginner Software Engineers Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Starting a career in software engineering is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. With countless programming languages, frameworks, tools, and b…
Follow Existing Patterns” Is Not Enough Context for an AI Coding Agent
Many engineering teams give AI coding agents instructions that sound perfectly clear: Follow existing patterns. Do not introduce new abstractions. Use…
Scoring Documents Against a Content Model Without an LLM
The naive way to map a Google Doc into a CMS is to send the whole document to an LLM and ask it to figure out which sections go where. That works at s…
AI agents changed my opinion on vertical slices.
The old preference For years, I preferred a traditional layered architecture. Controllers/ Services/ Repositories/ DTOs/ Models/ It makes navigation s…
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…
IBM watsonx Code Assistant Alternatives in 2026: What Replaced It and What to Choose
Last updated: July 2026 By Axel Misson. IBM watsonx Code Assistant has become part of IBM Bob, IBM's enterprise AI coding agent: the old product page …
From Payment to Shipping: How We Built a Cross-Border Order State Machine That Solved Idempotency and Callback Chaos
When your payment gateway fires the same "paid" webhook three times, your logistics API calls back with "shipped" before payment is confirmed, and the…
The Laws That Quietly Govern Good Software (Part One)
"We'll clean it up later." — every engineering team, at some point In my last post, I wrote about the hidden complexity behind simple products . The s…
What Uncle Bob's "I Don't Read Code Anymore" Taught Me About Testing
I've come across a post by Uncle Bob on X ( link ) (the author of Clean Code ) that has a couple thousand reposts. It states that he does not read cod…
AI Didn't Make Your Team Faster. It Moved the Bottleneck.
This is publishing in the same month the loudest AI jobs forecasts got walked back by the people who made them. That reversal surprised a lot of comme…
The Skill Audit
Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The ideas here come from two peopl…
The meta-repo as AI multiplier
When I introduced the meta-repo to the team, the goal was a true agentic coding setup: a shared doc set, shared skills, shared rules, all loaded autom…