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 …
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A league season is not a long tournament: four product bugs my test suite could never catch
I built a football prediction game for the 2026 World Cup. A month long, 104 matches, one winner at the end. It worked, people played, nothing caught …
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: Why HashMaps Feel So Fast — Understanding Performance Without Memorising Big-O
"A HashMap feels fast not because computers became magically faster. It feels fast because the design avoids doing unnecessary work." In the previous …
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…
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…
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…
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…
LLD Data Structures in Design Context: Why Modern Software Needs Fast Lookup Before Anything Else
"The biggest challenge in large software systems isn't storing information. It's finding the right information instantly." By now we've established tw…
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…
Building auditable regulatory reference data: from legal text to versioned CSV
Building auditable regulatory reference data: from legal text to versioned CSV Regulatory information becomes hard to use the moment it is reduced to …
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 …
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…
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…
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)…
AI Changes the Tools, Not the Fundamentals
This may sound counterintuitive, but in the era of AI, less is more. AI can help anyone write code faster, but it can't replace an understanding of ho…
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…
Three failures I still think about
People sometimes ask where the discipline comes from — the three-line rule, the habit of trusting nothing except my own running code, the assumption t…
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…
The Oracle Problem Never Went Away, It Just Got a Rebrand
The Checkmark Was Never Proof I don't write test suites for a living. My job is grading them, and grading the AI models that write and judge code in t…
Building Microservices Like a Professional: Lessons I Wish I Learned Earlier
If you've ever started a microservices project by splitting a monolith into dozens of tiny services, you've probably experienced this: "We have micros…
Electricity Planning Engine, part 2: A Reader Comment Found a Real Gap in My Test Suite (and How I Fixed It)
I wrote about the Electricity Planning Engine a little while back, including a timezone bug that made a correct price look "not found" after a databas…