by joacod
AI Gets More Useful When You Build the Workflow Around It
The biggest productivity gains from AI come from the context, skills, and workflows you build around it, because each useful project makes the next one easier.
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A $10K Private AI Is Starting to Look Reasonable
Local inference is moving beyond offline chat. A MacBook demo shows how a model becomes a private OpenAI-compatible service, and why that architecture could scale to serious on-premise AI.
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Small AI and the Return of Better Software
Small local AI models are pushing software back toward faster, cheaper, more private, and more focused product experiences.
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What I Learned Building My Own AI Harness
After building nano-harness, I have a clearer view of AI assistants, local-first workflows, architecture, and why building the small version yourself still teaches more than reading the hype.
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Context Is Not Memory, It Needs an Engine
Context is one of the real bottlenecks in agent-native engineering, and treating it like passive memory is not enough. It needs a system that can manage and surface it properly.
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Human Code Review Is Not the Last Frontier
Human code review is not the final barrier to autonomous software engineering. The deeper challenge is judgment, context, and the messy reality of real codebases.
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AI and the Loss of the Flow
Let's face it, we write less and less code every day. Software engineering changed for good. That...
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A New Day, a New Security Attack on npm…
The number of attacks and vulnerabilities popping up every week in npm is becoming ridiculous, and...
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Technical Interviews in the AI Era
Let’s be real, you don’t need more than 1 hour for a proper technical interview. The way most...
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Unlocking Developer Superpowers with Cursor
As a developer who’s been coding for 15+ years, I’ve recently shared my excitement about AI IDE's in...
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Stepping Aside to Lead in Tech
We are living in an exciting era for software development. It has always been an industry of constant...
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The Solution Builder: A New Way to Build Software in the AI Era
Agile was meant to help us move faster. But over time, it’s become its own source of drag. Bloated...
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Trending Programming
In today's world of software, many developers find themselves caught in what I call "trending...
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Microfrontends a Developer's Guide: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
In this final article of the microfrontends series, we will discuss some best practices for...
by joacodPart 4 of 5
Microfrontends a Developer's Guide: Exploring Projects and Managing Communication
In our previous article, we covered the tools and technologies for building microfrontends, including...
by joacodPart 3 of 5
Microfrontends a Developer's Guide: Tools, Technologies, and Step-by-Step Setup
In the previous articles, we introduced the concept of microfrontends and discussed their advantages...
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💜 The Special Meaning Behind the New CSS Logo #rebeccapurple
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), introduced in 1996, revolutionized how websites are designed and...
by joacodPart 2 of 5
Microfrontends a Developer's Guide: Advantages and Disadvantages
In our previous article, we introduced the concept of microfrontends and explored the challenges that...
by joacodPart 1 of 5
Microfrontends a Developer's Guide: The Challenges of Monolithic Frontends
This is the first article in a 5-part series on microfrontends. In this series, we'll explore what...
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Effective Cross-Team Communication: Breaking Down Barriers
In my previous article The Importance of Communication in a Software Team, we discussed the...
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The Importance of Communication in a Software Team
In software development, good communication is just as crucial as technical skills. It doesn’t matter...
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From Playing on PC to Building Software: My Journey into Programming
My First Encounter with a Computer It all started many years ago when I was just a kid,...
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Using LLMs in Software Development: A Simple Tip for Beginners
If you’re new to using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in software development, you might...
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🌐 Frontend Development with AI: Hype vs. Reality
Last weekend, I was working on an institutional website for a personal project and decided to use the...