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  <title>Agentic Engineering: Spec-to-Code is a Velocity Trap</title>
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  <description>There’s a growing belief that AI has collapsed software development into a single step: write a spec and get working code. In demos, this looks like a...</description>
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  <title>Moats of Sand: Why Engineering Scale Is No Longer a Durable SaaS Advantage</title>
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  <description>For most of the past decade, the software industry operated under a stable economic assumption: building serious software was expensive. Not conceptually...</description>
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  <title>Stop Over-Engineering Your Cache: A Case for Single-Binary Ephemeral Stores</title>
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  <description>I’ve observed a specific architectural bottleneck remain stubbornly consistent across language runtimes: the inefficiency of the multi-process concurrency...</description>
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  <title>The Realities of Production AI: Hard-Earned Lessons from 2025</title>
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  <description>By the end of 2025, it became clear that AI had entered a new phase. The question was no longer whether we could build advanced systems, but whether we...</description>
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  <title>The Permission Paradox: Balancing AI Capability and Safety in MCP Protocols</title>
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  <description>As AI agents evolve from simple chatbots into full-fledged workflow orchestrators, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a cornerstone of this...</description>
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  <title>From Specialist to Generalist: Leading in the GPT-5 Era</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:48:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <description>A year ago, deploying AI meant managing a toolkit of specialized models. You matched each task, translation, image recognition, and summarization to a...</description>
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  <title>Building a Production-Ready HTTP Server in Rust</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:26:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <description>Rust is known for its speed, safety, and expressive type system but what about using it for scalable web backends?Meet rust-http-example-server: a...</description>
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  <title>The Perfect Prompt Doesn’t Exist and That’s Okay</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:55:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <description>There is something that might surprise you: there is no such thing as a perfect prompt when working with large language models. And that’s not a flaw, it’s...</description>
  <category>Writing Prompts</category>
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  <title>How to use git bisect?</title>
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  <description>Guide to use git bisect to identify bug introduced commits</description>
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  <title>How to build API in kotlin using ktor framework</title>
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  <description>Guide to build api in kotlin using ktor framework</description>
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  <title>React hooks app structure</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 02:13:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <description>It a guide to write react hooks application without using recompose or redux dependencies</description>
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  <title>Typescript react app with yarn workspaces</title>
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  <description>There are so many posts available for creating react app with yarn workspaces, but I have not came across any article with typescript.</description>
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  <title>Docker for programmers</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 02:13:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <description>This post covers details on using docker to improve the productivity of programmers.</description>
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