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Julien Avezou4d ago • 5 min read
Don’t let AI do your thinking: a practical guide for engineers
I designed a "Thinking Guide" for engineers building with AI. And looking for your feedback. We’re....
#ai#softwareengineering#productivity#career
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Ken W Alger6d ago • 4 min read
The Backyard Quarry, Part 5: Digital Twins for Physical Objects
In Part 5 of the Backyard Quarry series, the project finally starts to connect to a bigger idea: dig...
#architecture#datascience#ai#softwareengineering
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Olamilekan Lamidi21h ago • 8 min read
Why I Mentor Junior Developers: Growing the Next Generation of Tech Talent
The Mentoring Gap in Tech The technology industry has a well-documented pipeline problem....
#softwareengineering#techleadership#careergrowth#techcommunity
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Jonathan Tuzman5d ago • 5 min read
Product Engineering's Job: Deal with Ambiguity
In my most recent roles as a frontend engineer at a $500M DTC meat subscription eCommerce platform.....
#career#frontend#product#softwareengineering
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Karthik Subramanian4d ago • 12 min read
The Setup Is the Strategy: How I Orchestrated a Product Migration with Claude Code
Most engineers using Claude Code are getting a fraction of its value. Not because the tool isn't...
#claudecode#ai#softwareengineering#productivity
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Rakshanda Abhimaan2d ago • 3 min read
BRD Template Checklist: What Actually Makes It Usable
Full guide + resources. Most business requirements documents fail in a predictable way. They are.....
#projectmanager#projectmanagement#agile#softwareengineering
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Seb Hoek3d ago • 7 min read
AI Built My Game Portal - Then the Firebase Bill Arrived
My AI-built browser game portal was growing. That was good news - until Firebase bills started risin...
#ai#performance#softwareengineering#webdev
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Fabio Sarmento5d ago • 1 min read
Keep It Simple, Silly!
When building systems, always ask: "Is this too complicated?" Over-engineering can lead to...
#softwareengineering#devops
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Yannick Loth5d ago • 7 min read
Process-First Design and the Independent Variation Principle: Two Paths to the Same Territory
In response to Sergiy Yevtushenko's "The Quiet Consensus" and "Java Backend Design Technology: A...
#architecture#softwareengineering#java#businessprocess
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Seb Hoek1d ago • 7 min read
AI created slow and expensive code. How I analyzed and fixed it.
My AI-built browser game portal was growing. That was good news - until Firebase bills started risin...
#ai#performance#softwareengineering#webdev
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Juma Paul2d ago • 3 min read
I Built a Self-Hosted Auth System Like Clerk — Here's What I Learned
Every serious project needs authentication. As someone early in my career, I kept running into the.....
#authentication#webdev#softwareengineering#node
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Jan tenPas IV3d ago • 11 min read
Stop Vibe-Checking Your AI App: A Practical Guide to Evals
Most AI demos look great on Friday afternoon. You try five prompts. The model answers smoothly. The...
#ai#llm#softwareengineering#testing
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Momin Ali4d ago • 6 min read
University ERP: 13-Module Institutional Management Platform
WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE ABOUT BANKING SOFTWARE When people think about software for...
#erp#softwareengineering#backend#systemdesign
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Dariusz Newecki5d ago • 4 min read
When My Governance System Governed Itself Wrong
I built a sensor to detect import order violations. It found 152. The fixer found 0. One of them was...
#ai#automation#codequality#softwareengineering
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Alan West4d ago • 5 min read
How to Keep Your Codebase From Rotting When AI Writes Most of It
When AI generates most of your code, maintenance becomes the real challenge. Here's how to prevent c...
#ai#softwareengineering#codequality#programming
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Talvinder Singh3d ago • 6 min read
The Vibe Coding Hangover: Why AI-Written Code Costs 4x to Maintain by Year Two
CodeRabbit data shows AI co-authored code has 1.7x more major issues and 2.74x higher vulnerability ...
#softwareengineering#agenticsystems#productionai
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Christo Zietsman5d ago • 2 min read
Conway's Law at Level 5
Before I wrote this post I had a conversation I did not expect to have. I have two agents: a Scienc...
#aidev#agenticdevelopment#softwareengineering#organisationaldesign
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Daniel Popoola6d ago • 9 min read
Why Redis Cannot Share the Truth with Postgres - The architecture mistake that will oversell your tickets
There is a moment, somewhere in the design of almost every backend system that mixes Redis and...
#distributedsystems#softwareengineering#go#postgres
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Meng Lin3d ago • 8 min read
Building NewHomie property analytics tool — Part 1
From Scrappy Scraper to Production Pipeline It all started with a question. “How am I...
#dataengineering#aws#softwareengineering#distributedsystems
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KunalApr 13, 2026 • 7 min read
Software Rewrite from Scratch: Why It's Almost Always the Worst Engineering Decision [2026]
Rewriting software from scratch feels like the bold move. It's almost always the wrong one. Here's t...
#softwareengineering#techdebt#refactoring#projectmanagement
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Elena Romanova6d ago • 10 min read
AI-Assisted Development: When orchestration starts collapsing under its own weight
I thought adding more control would make my AI-assisted coding workflow more reliable. Instead, it.....
#ai#softwareengineering#softwaredevelopment#agents
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Peter Ciluzzi5d ago • 9 min read
Architecture, Conventions, and AI: Building a System for Full-Stack Software Development
Over the past several months, I built a personal reference suite of over 50 full-stack web...
#softwaredevelopment#architecture#systemdesign#softwareengineering
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vmxd5d ago • 3 min read
An AI Agent Spent $39 and Earned $0. The Engineering Was Real
An AI agent with a wallet, a self-modifying codebase, and a DAG planner. 14 days running on a real.....
#agents#ai#blockchain#softwareengineering
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Basstardd6d ago • 3 min read
The Security Lindy Effect: What Smart Contracts Can Teach Us About Software Security in the Age of AI
There has always been something uniquely harsh about smart contracts. The obvious reason is that...
#ai#blockchain#security#softwareengineering
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