IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
01 Mar 2026 · 9 min read
ai
Putting AI into production is nothing like building a demo. Two tech leads discuss costs, hallucinations, latency, guard rails, and what actually breaks when real users hit your AI features.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 18 min read
architecture
Part 10 of 12 — From 10 concurrent interviews to 10,000. LiveKit SFU mesh, stateless agent workers, Kubernetes auto-scaling, regional deployment, and the infrastructure patterns that handle hiring season surges.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 43 min read
compliance
Part 6 of 10 — COPPA fines start at $50,000 per violation. GDPR penalties can reach 4% of revenue. This isn't optional. Here's how we built KidSpark to be compliant from day one.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 13 min read
ai
Part 2 of 7 — A five-phase workflow for AI-assisted legacy migration. From assessment to ship, with tool recommendations, team role definitions, and the prompt patterns that actually work.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 10 of 12 — How AI transforms the DevOps/Platform Engineer role: AI-assisted pipeline generation, incident diagnosis, capacity planning, GitOps automation, and the operational judgment that keeps systems running and teams unblocked.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 8 min read
ai
How to use Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools as your personal English tutor. Prompt templates, role-play scenarios, and daily AI workflows for busy professionals.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 12 min read
agents
Part 3 of 6 — Research interviews follow structured protocols with distinct phases. How to build an LLM-driven state machine with next_phase() function calling and dynamic instruction swapping via set_chat_ctx().
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
ai
Master Gemini Gems: the Four Pillars framework, Knowledge Files strategy, 5 production-ready Gems for business, marketing, dev, and creative work. Step-by-step instructions.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 11 min read
content-optimization
The complete on-page SEO guide for 2026. Master title tags, meta descriptions, header hierarchy, content optimization, internal linking, semantic HTML, and featured snippet strategies. Part 3 of the SEO Leader's Complete Playbook.
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