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The Next.js Security Checklist for AI-Generated Code
Here's a number that should make you check your own repo: an audit of over 200 vibe-coded...
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James Anderson10 min read
Generating code with AI is easy. Building something that survives its own growth is not — and those aren't the same skill. This article wrote about the workflow that actually holds up for real apps: give AI structure, rules, and context before it writes a line — and
Vibe Coding in the New Era: How to Build Real Applications with AI ...
James Anderson1 min read
#ai#chatgpt#discuss#techtalks
AI Is Getting Dramatically More Capable, Fast. Where Is This Heading?
On September 3, 2026, OpenAI released a model called GPT-6 Astra, and one of its senior figures told...
James Anderson7 min read
#ai#llm#agents#webdev
Agents That Act Need Brakes, Not Just Brains
Here's the moment a lot of us had this year. You built an agent. It was genuinely impressive — it...
James Anderson7 min read
#ai#beginners#webdev
Building With AI When You Don't Know Architecture: A Survival Guide
Let me describe a moment you might recognize. You had an idea for an app. You didn't know how to...
James Anderson7 min read
#ai#agents#llm#webdev
9 Ways Your AI Agent Silently Fails (and How to Catch Each)
Your agent passed its tests. It ran clean in the demo. You shipped it. Two days later it's...
James Anderson8 min read
#ai#productivity#career#llm
Prompt Fluency Is the New Literacy — and Most Devs Are Winging It
I need to confess something, because I suspect you've done it too. A few months ago I caught myself...
James Anderson7 min read
#ai#llm#machinelearning#webdev
How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed
Here's a number that shouldn't make sense on first read. Qwen just released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, and...
James Anderson8 min read
#ai#productivity#llm#webdev
Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?
I want to describe a completely ordinary hour from my week, because I suspect it's your week too. ...
James Anderson8 min read
#ai#llm#rag#webdev
The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG
The first time my RAG system gave a confidently wrong answer, I did what everyone does: I blamed the...
James Anderson11 min read
#ai#llm#webdev#programming
7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)
There's a very specific kind of AI project that looks incredibly impressive in the architecture...
James Anderson8 min read
#ai#llm#machinelearning#discuss
Why LLMs Are Bad at Math, Explained Simply
You've probably had this exact moment. You ask an AI a math question. It lays out the steps...
James Anderson9 min read
#ai#llm#machinelearning#webdev
Why LLMs Hallucinate, Explained Simply — and How to Actually Stop It
You ask an AI for a book recommendation and it gives you a real author, a plausible title, a...
James Anderson10 min read
#ai#llm#machinelearning#webdev
Prompt Caching, Explained: How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 70-90% (With Real Math)
In my last post I broke down how LLMs count tokens and why your bill is decided at the tokenizer. A...
James Anderson6 min read
#ai#llm#machinelearning#webdev
Inside the Tokenizer: Why the Same Prompt Costs Different Amounts on Every Model
If you build with LLMs, you pay by the token. Not by the word, not by the character — the token. And...
James Anderson8 min read
#flutter#ai#claude#designsystem
A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself
My app worked. It just looked like three different apps stitched together. BrandMeld (Flutter, AI...
James Anderson3 min read
#coding#computerscience#software#softwareengineering
How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood
To the average user, opening a PDF feels no different than viewing a webpage or reading a Word...
James Anderson6 min read
#career#productivity#mentalhealth#webdev
How I Stopped Burning Out as a Developer
For a long time, I thought burnout was something that happened to other people. People who didn't...
James Anderson4 min read
#ai#programming#software#career
How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading)
How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading) A few years ago, "AI in...
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