Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes) After working on software projects of different sizes, I've noticed that…
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AI Fluency for Software Engineers: A Practical Playbook Beyond Prompting
AI Fluency for Software Engineers: A Practical Playbook Beyond Prompting A few years ago, being productive with AI mostly meant knowing which tool to …
Fixing Bugs Is Easy. Preventing Their Return Is Hard
Most developers celebrate when they identify the root cause of a bug. The debugger finally reveals the problem. The fix is coded. Tests pass. A pull r…
Why 60% of Enterprises Are Shipping Untested Code in 2026 (And How Agentic QA Fixes It)
The 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report buried a stat that should be on every engineering leader's radar: 60% of enterprises are shipping untested code …
How Database Inserts Work: WAL and Buffer Pools
Quick Answer: When you insert data into a database, it doesn't immediately write to the main data table on disk. Instead, it caches the data in a RAM-…
AI Code Refactoring: Why Testing Still Matters
Quick Answer: While AI agents can rewrite or refactor thousands of lines of code in hours, generating the code is only half the battle. Verifying that…
Identity Verification Platform Development: Solving the Hard Engineering Problems
Identity Verification Platform Development: Solving the Hard Engineering Problems Building a KYC product sounds simple until you actually build one. U…
"It Works" Has Never Been Good Enough
It all started when the Senior Architect dropped by the daily standup. The team lead had the backlog up on the big screen and there was a story about …
How a Magento 2 Upgrade Broke Our Multi-Website Setup (And Why the Problem Wasn't Magento)
A few weeks ago, I was working on a Magento 2 upgrade for a project that hosts multiple websites under a single Magento installation. The upgrade itse…
Part 5 ("The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer") has been generating sharp comments. Worth a read for the thread alone.
The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer: How the Harness Holds Quality (Series Part 5) Self-healing guardrails for business-side PRs Ryosuke Tsuji R…
How Databases Impact System Scalability and Speed in Software Engineering
Databases are core to most software systems, and their design directly influences both scalability and performance. Here’s what every engineer should …
"Supports custom code" means nothing. Here's the 3-level ruler that tells you if a low-code platform will lock you in.
Every low-code vendor says "we support customization." But supports is a weasel word — recoloring a button is customization, and rewriting a schedulin…
The Spec That Doesn't Lie
A Level 5 Engineer — Issue #5 Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The …
Andy's Laws of AI in Software Engineering
Shareable blog post edition: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/06/andys-laws-of-ai-in-software-engineering.html Law #1: "The more Software Developer…
【Deep Dive】Frontier Code: The Benchmark That Asks "Would a Maintainer Merge This?"
Abstract Cognition's Frontier Code benchmark reframes how we evaluate AI coding capability. Instead of asking "does the code pass tests?", it asks a h…
The Future of Software Development Isn’t Writing More Code — It’s Building Smarter Systems
For decades, becoming a better developer meant one thing: Write more code. Learn more programming languages. Memorize more syntax. Build more features…
Breaking the Monolith: Achieving True Scalability in Flutter Mobile Applications
For modern software and product teams, speed is no longer just about reckless sprinting; it is about building a hyper-efficient feedback loop that tra…
Your low-code project didn't fail because of low-code. It failed because you picked the wrong paradigm.
Everyone who's shipped an enterprise system on a low-code platform knows the arc. The first two months are euphoric — drag, drop, forms and workflows …
Securing AI Systems: Red Teaming, Prompt Injection, and Adversarial Testing
Part 6 of a series on building reliable AI systems In the previous parts of this series, we explored: Testing AI systems Evaluation pipelines RAG eval…
Five problems hiding inside every admin permissions setup
Permissions look like an if-statement. By the time you have three roles and one custom rule, it's a system — and most teams discover the mistakes in p…
From Zero to Algorithmic Execution: Mastering Authentication, Rate Limits, and SDKs
When developers first discover VecTrade.io , they usually start by placing a few manual trades on our VTrade web dashboard. It’s snappy, responsive, a…
Beyond CRUD: 9 Backend Concepts Every Engineer Should Know to Build Scalable and Reliable Systems
When I started learning backend development, I thought the job was pretty straightforward. Build an API. Connect a database. Add authentication. Deplo…
From Code Completion to Autonomous Reasoning: What the Oceanus Leak Tells Us About the Future of AI Software Engineering
Summary Drawing from the Oceanus model leak incident, this article dissects how frontier large language models are evolving in code reasoning, vulnera…
AI in SDLC: Why I Stopped Optimizing for Code Generation and Started Optimizing for Alignment
Over the past few months I built an AI-assisted delivery framework — not to write code faster, but to eliminate ambiguity across the entire software d…
It’s Not the AI. It’s How You Use It
Chapter 5 Deep-Dive: The Comprehension You Trade Away Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with C…
Road To KiwiEngine #11: Why I’m Building Sovereign AI Instead of Another AI Wrapper
Most AI products today are wrappers. Different interfaces. Different branding. Different marketing. But underneath many of them is the same pattern: c…
How to Choose Tech Decisions That Serve You (And the "This Must Be False" Rule)
Inspired by Nir Eyal's "beliefs are tools" framework Beliefs are tools, not truths. Tech stacks are too. Pick the ones that work for you. Most "tech d…
I Built the .NET Roadmap I Wish I Had at the Start of My Career
Hi DEV Community 👋 "We’ve all been there: you finish a tutorial, the code runs, but you still feel like you’re missing the 'why' behind the architectu…
Why Coding Stays in Human-AI Collaboration: A Paradox in Stanford's 51 Deployments
"We rolled out AI and saw no results" and "AI made our development dramatically faster" are being said in the same year, often inside the same company…
Why Most AI Agent Projects Fail in Production
Why Most AI Agent Projects Fail in Production AI agents have become one of the most talked-about technologies in software development. Every week, a n…