IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
45 articles
01 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
agentic-ai
GPT-5.4 crossed human performance on desktop tasks. With a hosted shell, 1M context window, and native compaction, the era of AI as an autonomous coworker is finally here — and the implications for developers are profound.
Read more31 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Anthropic acquired Bun in December 2025. OpenAI acquired Astral (uv, Ruff) in March 2026. The AI model war has a new front: owning the developer toolchain. Here's what this arms race means for how you build software.
Read more30 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
agentic-ai
Cursor's March 2026 release brings parallel subagents, BugBot Autofix, and cloud agents — a genuine shift from AI coding assistant to AI workflow engine. Here's what it means for real teams.
Read more29 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google just made Gemini Code Assist free and priced Flash-Lite at $0.25/M tokens. After 15 years building production systems, here's what this cost collapse really changes about how we build.
Read more28 Mar 2026 · 12 min read
ai
A comprehensive guide to the modern free-tier tech stack that lets you build, deploy, and scale a startup for roughly $20/month. No servers. No DevOps team. No funding required. Just an idea and WiFi.
Read more27 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
agents
90% of developers now use AI at work. But the real shift in March 2026 is agents moving from suggestion-mode to autonomous execution. Here's what that actually looks like in production systems and what breaks when you go too far too fast.
Read more27 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Deep dive into Gemini 3.1 Pro's practical developer features — 77.1% ARC-AGI-2, dynamic thinking API, 1M token context, and what these benchmarks actually mean when building production AI systems.
Read more26 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Beyond benchmarks — a real comparison of DeepSeek V3.2 and Gemini 3 Pro for production developer workflows. Cost, code quality, context window, multimodal capabilities, and when to use which.
Read more26 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
agentic
March 2026 marks a turning point — AI coding tools evolved from assistants to autonomous agents. As a Technical Lead, here's what you actually need to know to navigate JetBrains Central, GitHub Agent HQ, Dapr Agents, MCP, and the multi-agent revolution.
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