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The Marginal Cost of Correctness in the AI Era
Plus the price wars won't save the token usage and a potential replacement for WordPress
Token Inflation is Real
How Zalando built a client-side load balancing, Token inflation and when event sourcing is not a good choice
What Loop Engineering Actually Requires
Plus: Homebrew 6.0's real DevEx improvements, and whether Azure HorizonDB is too good to be true.
Domain Knowledge Is the New Force Multiplier
As AI shifts the focus from implementation to understanding, we explore spec-driven development, interrogatory LLMs that uncover hidden assumptions, and why system boundaries begin with ownership, not deployment.
Learnings From Being Part of Project Glasswing
See also the AI Bubble and Why Sagas Feel Broken
Code Mode: A better Way to Use MCP?
Plus the most used database engine you may never have heard of and Resume as code!
Architecture Decision Records in the Age of AI
Rethinking pull requests with GitHub stacked PRs and discussing Claude Mythos
MCP is Dead! Long Live MCP
A closer look at MCP x Skills, and why you will probably use both
The debt you didn't see coming
Understanding cognitive debt, reducing token usage for your agents and security paradox
Domain-Driven Refactoring
Book Review
Integration Testing Techniques
Plus discussing WebSockets, SSE and the eventual rise of the 0.1x Engineer
Things Are Not Always What They Seem: Understanding Context Rot
Plus circuit breakers, rate limiting techniques and why architecture matters
Single Source of Truth: When to Break the Rule
What lies beyond distributed transactions and why having superstar developers may not worth
A Quick Explanation of SOLID Principles
Claude SKILLs adopted by OpenAI, testing strategies for microservices & using git worktrees for parallel AI workflows
2025 LLM Year in Review
Plus Big-O complexity of vibe coders, reflections on AI at the end of 2025 and Graphite gets bought by Cursor
The Renaissance of Coding Conventions: Because AI Reads Manuals
Making steady progress through FixIt weeks, Typescript 7.0 getting closer and 2025 Technology Radar by CloudFlare.
Where is My Stuff? Tracing Domain-Level Operations
Plus discussing queues, distributed logs, topologies, why queues do not fix overload and more
Friction Was The Feature: Not All Changes Are For the Best
Plus using simplicity as a guiding principle for AWS Aurora DSQL, Requeuing roulette, What to consider when migrating from CosmosDB to DynamoDB
Spec Driven Development
Plus OpenAI's creative strategy, MCP server understands lambda's event sourcing, Why you don't like OOP and more