Architecture

An AI-Assisted Development Methodology, Earned from Real Incidents

This document is a methodology for building software with AI assistance, compiled from the rules that survived real use on a production data platfor…

Brute-Force R&D: Cheap Exploration and Multi-Agent Judgment

I've been writing a COW fs lately. Today I got the first PoC working: reads and writes, plus recovery from 262,165 power cuts, and every bit of data…

Vibe Coding Hasn't Won. The Industry Is Misreading Its Own Data.

Originally published at zalcro.ai/guides/vibe-coding-hasnt-won The most repeated statistic in software development right now is that 84% of develope…

Obelisk 0.42: Durable Agents, Layered Sandboxes

Вайбкодинг и DevOps.Начало

Откройте любой чат с современной нейросетью и напишите: «Сделай мне production-ready Kubernetes-кластер». Если вам повезёт, AI нарисует вам нескольк…

Vibe Was Never the Problem: The Missing Half of Vibe Coding

TL;DR: A vibe is compressed experience: pattern recognition that shows up as a feeling before it shows up as an explanation. It's one of the oldest…

katamari architecture

AI написал весь код. Почему архитектуру PoC и деплой пришлось делать самому?

С помощью AI сегодня каждый может навайбкодить приложение за считанные часы. Но чтобы превратить его в рабочий PoC, нужно решить ряд архитектурных,…

Where AI review pays: the codebase matters more than volume

Field note. Claims checked as of 2026-09-12. Primary source: Michels et al., "Vibe Coding: Practice, Performance, Productivity, and Risk - A State-o…

How long has it been since you last wrote code?

Since 2026, I’ve barely written any code. AI has moved so fast that I haven’t even had time to adjust before it already reshaped the way I work. Jus…

Understanding Things Anyway

I’ve been noticing something weird lately. Not with AI itself. AI is obviously getting better: the models are getting better, the tooling is getting…

🤖 Can Vibe Coding Get You Hired as a Developer?

Yes. But There's a Catch. Or are you just really good at asking AI to fix the code AI wrote? 😭 Let's be honest. A few years ago, getting hired as a…

Vibe Engineering: From Prompt-and-Pray to Controlled Ingenuity

Engineering Philosophy · AI-First Development Vibe Engineering: From Prompt-and-Pray to Controlled Ingenuity Vibe coding gave us a superpower. Then…

Building Achintisalive: A Socratic AI Tutor for Secure Coding 🛡️💡

If you’ve ever spent hours participating in competitive programming challenges or working through cybersecurity learning tracks, you know the frustr…

Building a Client-Side Byte to String Decoder with Unicode Support

Hey DEV community! 👋 When debugging network streams, parsing custom file formats, or inspecting database buffers, we often extract data as raw array…

How I engineered a multi-agent coding terminal with a 3D Three.js Office Floor UI published

Building Gnosis: A Multi-Agent Terminal with a 3D Office UI I spent my summer building Gnosis , a local-first, open-source terminal coding agent des…

Vibe Coding in the New Era: How to Build Real Applications with AI

Vibe coding has changed how developers build software. You can describe a feature to an AI coding assistant and get working code in minutes. That is…

Enterprise vibe coding: the governance framework for shipping AI-generated apps to production

Enterprise vibe coding: the governance framework for shipping AI-generated apps to production Published: August 22, 2026 Category: Enterprise · AI D…

So, I Vibe Coded A Way Out, Again.

A while ago I wrote an article asking When Is 100% Vibe Coding OK? . My conclusion was that it works when the human already owns the invariants. If…

An open-source, modular CMS for developers and AI-assisted/vibe-coded websites.

For years, the CMS ecosystem has largely followed the same formula. Install a CMS. Choose a theme. Install plugins. Customize some templates. Add an…

AGENTS.md Is Programming for Your AI Agent, Not Documentation for Humans

If you use a coding agent for any real length of time, you hit the same wall: the agent keeps making mistakes you already corrected. Wrong package m…

Stop Burning Your AI Limits: A Token Diet for Long Coding Days

Stop Burning Your AI Limits: A Token Diet for Long Coding Days A 3-tier framework for taming reasoning models, context bloat, and $50/1M output cost…

Why QA Testing Is Important for AI-Generated Code

1. Why AI-Generated Code Can Look Correct but Still Fail AI coding tools generate code by predicting patterns from your prompt, the surrounding code…

I Burned My £20 Cursor Budget on Opus 5 (And All I Got Was 44 Files of Absolute Garbage)

So, I decided to do a little experiment. With Opus 5 just launched, I set it loose on a pretty deep, open-ended task: scan the landscape, dig into n…

Vibe Coding Won't Kill Developers. It'll Kill the Middle.

When good cameras got cheap, everyone predicted the death of professional photography. The prediction landed wrong. The low end died outright: stock…

Why AI Apps Fail in Production (And How Google Solved It)

We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to vibe coding and LLMs, you can take a wild idea from a blank screen to a wo…

Как я автоматизировал превращение вайбкодерского PoC в production-ready MVP

Как я автоматизировал превращение вайбкодерского PoC в production-ready MVP За несколько часов с помощью AI можно собрать работающий PoC: интерфейс…

Your AI Coding Assistant Has No Memory of Why

A pull request lands. Two approvals, tests green, CI blue. It ships on a Tuesday. Three weeks later there's an incident. Somebody opens the file and…

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

From vibe-coded to shippable: a playbook

Ahnii! There's a lot of energy right now spent bashing vibe coding. I think most of it is aimed at the wrong target. The MVP you stand up with AI do…