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Jerry Mannel Reghunadh on AI adoption in engineering teams, engineering judgment, and what actually changes when teams ship with models in the loop.
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AI Thinktank
I run two AIs side by side and make them judge each other's answers instead of judging every response myself. Here's the workflow.
I automated the Chrome Dino game
The Chrome dino game shows up the moment your Wi-Fi drops. I finally sat down and automated it — no complicated logic required.
AI Makes Development Easy, But Engineering Is Still Hard
AI made software development easy. Software engineering is still hard — confusing the two is how you ship a fragile prototype.
StepSnap — I Built a Chrome Extension
Screen-sharing or stitching screenshots into a doc are both bad options for showing someone a workflow. So I built a Chrome extension instead.
Roasted by my daughter!
My daughter did the math on my Demon Slayer watch pace versus GTA 6's release date. She's probably right.
Projects
Tools, guides and documentation for the things I've built — live and archived.
Setting up a home server
My Mac Mini quietly became my whole homelab's backbone. Here's why I moved the always-on infrastructure to a dedicated home server instead.
Traffic Blocking with Pi-hole and Learning about DNS
Building a privacy first home network with Raspberry Pi
My Productivity Hack for 2026
My GitHub contribution graph tells the real story of 2025 — and the biggest driver wasn't code, it was Obsidian.
Bypassing AI Guardrails
Prompt engineering often comes down to a handful of 'magic words.' The gap between a perfect answer and a confused model is smaller than you think.
From Zero to 10k
I had never run a mile in my life. Here's what changed, and what it actually took to get from zero to a 10k.
30 Minutes with Gemini 3 and Google Antigravity
A late but honest 30 minutes with Gemini 3 and Google's Antigravity — what worked, what didn't, and what it's actually for.
From "Half-Stack" to Full-Value: Owning Your Deployment Pipeline
Writing the code is half the job. The other half is everything that happens between your laptop and production — and most of us skip it.
Upgrading A Hugo Website
The book shipped, so it was time to catch up on a year of neglect and finally upgrade this Hugo site running on Cloudflare Pages.
The Developer's Guide to AI
The Developer's Guide to AI: A Field Guide for the Working Developer. By Jacob Orshalick, Jerry Mannel Reghunadh and Danny Thompson. No Starch Press, June 2026.
Adopt AI-Assisted Code Development. Now!
The productivity gains from AI-assisted coding are real and immediate. Here's the experience that convinced me, and why waiting costs you.
Commit Your Code Conference 2024 - Session
Notes from speaking at Commit Your Code 2024 — a conference where every dollar of proceeds goes to FreeCodeCamp and St. Jude.
Podcast: About AI and Data Driven Decision Making
A conversation on This Dot Labs' Leadership Exchange podcast about AI, leadership, and making AI genuinely accessible to teams.
Fun With Imagen 3
Google's Imagen 3 landed in Gemini, and I had to try it. What image generation and iterative follow-ups actually feel like to use.
The Leadership Exchange - Dallas
Notes from a leadership panel in Dallas on AI's impact on organizations, and what stuck with me from the room.
The Sunday Test
Stripe built one of the best engineering teams in the industry using a simple gut check called the Sunday Test. Here's what it asks.
Speech models + LLMs = Magic
Speech-to-text is useful on its own. Combined with an LLM, it gets a lot more interesting — Q&A docs, meeting summaries, and more.
About
I'm Jerry. I'm an engineer. Twenty years in tech, spent moving between QA, product innovation, and solution architecture.
Solving Sudoku Puzzles with OpenCV
Sudoku got boring once I got good at it, so I built goSudoku instead — a solver that reads the board with OpenCV and plays it back.
Learning ML
Self-teaching AI/ML by building something real: an OCR model that reads letters off a Secret Santa slide, one image at a time.
To Care!
A photo Voyager 1 took from 6 billion kilometers away, and what it has to do with caring about the work in front of you.
The Underappreciated Skill of Comprehension
The biggest red flag in an engineer isn't skill. It's not being able to read a document and understand it without someone explaining it.
Part 3: After the Date
Supporting multiple date formats at the API level sounds convenient. It isn't. Part 3 on why one standard beats many.
Part 2: The Second Date
ISO 8601 solves most date-time problems. Part 2 walks through designing the field properly, timezone and all.
Part 1: The Date
Date-time looks like a simple data type until you have to store it. Part 1 of a three-part look at what actually goes wrong.
The Promiscuity of PUT
PUT looks simple until you have to decide what it actually updates. A field-by-field guide to designing PUT APIs that don't surprise you.
2FA tokens via CLI
Getting 2FA codes off my phone and into a terminal, so pasting a TOTP doesn't mean picking up my phone every time.
Being vegan!
Going vegan wasn't the plan. It's what happened after Covid lockdowns, bad habits, and clothes that stopped fitting.
Mongo Express Middleware
A weekend project turned open-source library: middleware for working with MongoDB directly, without Mongoose in the way.
Archive
The complete chronological archive, every lane at once.