AI Can Write the Code. Who Gives It the Context?
When you talk to ChatGPT about a subject you understand well, you quickly notice something. The first answer is rarely the final answer. You add conte…
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Mastering Design Principles: Dependency Inversion in Kotlin
Abstract In modern software engineering, writing code that simply "works" is only the first step. The real challenge lies in designing systems that ar…
Lean Teams, AI Agents: How Software Gets Built Without a Full Team
The conversation around software teams and AI usually gets stuck on one question: will AI replace developers? That's the wrong question, and it distra…
Designing SAP Integrations for Hospitals in Venezuela: What Actually Makes Sense
In most hospital IT conversations in Venezuela, SAP shows up as a kind of magic word: “ If we put SAP in, inventory, billing, purchases and HR will fi…
Building a Resilient Meta Ads Scraper: What Breaks (and What I Learned Fixing It)
When I set out to build a tool for pulling ad data from Meta's platforms, the brief I gave myself was deceptively simple: let someone search for ads b…
The Difference Between a Product and Infrastructure
One of the most interesting realizations I've had while building software is that products and infrastructure are not the same thing. At first, that s…
Agentic QA Pipelines in 2026: Why Test Scripts Are Already Dead (And What Replaces Them)
Agentic QA Pipelines: Why Your Test Scripts Are Already Obsolete You wrote the test. You maintained the test. The app changed. You rewrote the test. I…
🎯 The STAR Quest: Level‑Up Your Behavioral Interview Like Neo Seeing the Code
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I faced a behavioral interview. I walked in feeling like I’d just aced a whiteboard algor…
Your Spec Files Are Lying to You. Mine Were Too.
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…
IONA OS: Building a sovereign operating system in Rust from scratch – No token, no ICO
I started writing IONA OS on a random night, 13 years ago. Back then, as now, I had no team. I never took money from venture capital funds. And I neve…
Systems Thinking: The Missing Skill in Modern Software Engineering
Many developers learn programming by focusing on functions, classes, frameworks, and algorithms. Early in our careers, success often means writing cod…
The Jedi Mind Trick: How One Resume Line Turned My Job Hunt Into a Victory Lap
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I felt like I was stuck in the opening scene of The Matrix —surrounded by green code that made zero sense, exce…
Wiring the Guardrails
A Level 5 Engineer — Issue #6 Preface I want to be upfront about something before we get into it. None of the frameworks in this article is mine. The …
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…
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 …
Stop Calling Yourself a Software Engineer If You've Never Shipped Anything
There's a quiet lie rotting at the heart of modern software development, and almost nobody wants to say it out loud: the industry is drowning in peopl…
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 …
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…
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…
Two Pillars Protocol — A maturity model for AI-era software engineering
Software engineering has had maturity models for forty years. CMMI told organizations whether their processes were repeatable. ISO/IEC 33000 told them…
The Output Layer Problem: Why AI Velocity Makes Quality Gates More Important, Not Less
The faster your agents ship code, the faster slop accumulates. Here's why the solution isn't slowing down. There's a version of the AI productivity st…
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…
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…
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…
Review Doesn’t Scale, Validation Does
Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: From Plan Review to Validation Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with Cla…
Parallelize yourself, not your agents
Contrary to what your feed wants you to believe, the biggest productivity unlock this year isn’t parallel agents. It’s the ubiquitous dev environment.…