Why Developer Experience (DevEx) Dies in the Backlog?
"Technical debt" might be one of the most successful terms ever coined in software engineering. Not because it solved the problem. Technical debt is s…
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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…
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…
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…
Solution to Challenge 2 - Data Grid Validation and CRUD Operations
Challenge #2 is done — here's my solution to Challenge 2 - Data Grid Validation and CRUD Operations First, the gaps in the user story 1) The delete op…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to Write a Career Change Resume That Actually Gets Interviews
A lot of people reading dev.to didn't start in software. Bootcamp grads, teachers, nurses, retail managers, marketers who taught themselves SQL. And p…
Why Your AI Resume Sounds Generic (And How to Fix It)
I'm Larbi, and I build Roleframe, an AI tool that tailors resumes to specific jobs. I spend a lot of time looking at what large language models (LLMs)…
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…
Stop treating LLMs like search engines
I spent the first six months of the AI boom treating ChatGPT and Claude like a better version of Google. I would type in a problem, get a snippet of c…
Software doesn't age. It stops adapting.
A deep-dive into the mechanisms that make software progressively harder to evolve. Introduction An application written ten years ago still works. User…
My AI Agent Refunded a Customer Twice, and Every Status Code Was 200
Last weekend, during the Agents of SigNoz hackathon, I wanted to avoid building yet another self-healing agent or a demo that simply detected an error…
# We Are Not Building a Product. We Are Building the Foundation.
Founder Journal #1 — The Beginning of NAEOS "Great software isn't built on great code alone. It's built on great foundations." The AI Revolution Is He…
What if MCP could manage your entire development runtime?
I created Agent-Up , an open-source desktop app and local server for running multiple coding-agent environments on one machine. Worktrees isolate sour…
Game Theory in Software Engineering: How Cooperation Wins
In software engineering, optimizing for individual metrics at the expense of your team is a losing strategy. I believe that while "selfish" coding yie…
Has Claude Code changed your role from coding to making engineering decisions?
For the last 8–9 months, I haven't written a single line of code manually. I've been building entirely with Claude Code. My day now looks something li…
Never Create an Invalid Object Again — The Builder Pattern
A real story from building a manuscript submission system at a scientific publishing company. We were building a system at a Publishing Company that a…
Technical Debt Didn’t Disappear. We Just Started Paying for It in Tokens.
One of the most common claims about LLMs and AI agents is that they'll dramatically reduce the cost of software development. Instead of hiring more en…
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 f…
Hello DEV Community, I’m a Software Engineer Exploring AI, Architecture, and Better Solutions
Hello DEV Community! 👋 I’m Shahriar Hossain, a software engineer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I enjoy building software, but what excites me most is unders…
How the V8 Engine Optimizes JavaScript at Runtime
.The V8 engine speeds up JavaScript by dynamically compiling frequently run bytecode into optimized native machine code. However, if you pass inconsis…