I've Pivoted Away from the SaaS Subscription Model
After more than a year trying to sell subscriptions, I switched to a transactional model. Here's why pay-per-audit is working better than monthly plans ever did.
AI for SWE | Engineering-first newsletter on AI coding
Engineering-first newsletter on AI-assisted software engineering: prototyping vs production, security, architecture, testing, maintenance, and real tradeoffs.
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The Good Hallucinations
You can't avoid AI hallucinations. Learn to love them: they force better engineering, documentation, types, and tests. Build systems that catch bad ones automatically.
Are You Fighting Hallucinations?
LLM hallucinations measure code unpredictability. If AI struggles with your code, it's a quality problem. The same improvements that help AI also help humans.
Refactoring Rust Without Knowing Rust: An AI-Assisted Workflow
I recently needed to refactor a Rust codebase within a Tauri project but lacked the time to learn the language's intricacies deeply. I solved this by decoupling the software engineering principles from the syntax implementation, using an AI-driven workflow.
Here's How I'm Vibe Coding a Desktop Application
I started vibe coding a desktop app with Tauri and Rust—a language I don't know. Here's the workflow that got me to 5000 lines of code in a single day.
AI Prototypes Are Just Prototypes
A prototype is not a handoff artifact. Treating it as one is a category error. What should be handed over is not the prototype alone, but the intent.
React2Shell and AI Monoculture
How AI coding tools create dangerous monocultures and why a single vulnerability can affect thousands of projects simultaneously.
Cheap Vibe coding matters
Why using cost-effective AI models for coding can be more beneficial than always reaching for the most expensive options.
What's Vibe Coding, really
Exploring the true meaning of 'vibe coding' as defined by Andrej Karpathy and how it differs from the current AI app generator trend.