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My first day at a real software engineering job. I opened the codebase. Twenty thousand lines of code. Then my manager sent me a ticket: "Customers are complaining that premium That was it. No hints. Just me. And someone else's mess. I had passed every LeetCode problem None of it prepared me for thi
I'm a solo developer in Accra, Ghana, and I just shipped my first real product. It's called AgentRAM (agentram.dev), and it's a memory API for AI agents. This is the build story and the stack. Over the last year, AI agents have gone from research toys to actual things people ship. But every agent th
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We had built the Treasure Hunt Engine to power in-game treasure hunts that reward players for exploring content. At 100 000 active players it felt fast. At 500 000 it started to stutter. The operator documentation told teams to set max_reindexing_concurrency = 2
A few weeks ago, I argued that AI is not a great equalizer — it's a great amplifier. It amplifies what developers already are, for better and for worse. Juniors with AI produce junior code at senior speed. Seniors with AI produce senior code at supernatural speed. This post is about where that ampli
Most outages aren't caused by bad code. They're caused by good code deployed in the wrong order. Senior developers don't rely on memory before a deploy. They run a checklist — every single time, even for a one-line change. Here's the exact checklist, and why each step exists. Pilots don't skip the p
The "Vibe Coding" Epidemic I am graduating with a computer science degree next year. Let me tell you a secret. (Quick note: If you prefer watching a video over reading, here is an excellent breakdown of this exact shift: I have watched the entire field of software engineering mutate right in front o
The CI was green. Build passed. No TypeScript errors. No warnings. Everything looked clean. I clicked deploy and went to make tea. Came back, opened staging, and things were broken in ways that made no sense. A redirect wasn't working. Lint had silently disappeared from the build pipeline. One API r
April 25, 2026. 9 seconds. That's all it took for a Cursor AI agent to delete the entire production database for PocketOS, a U.S. car-rental software startup. Not just the database. The volume-level backups too. The founder posted about it on X. 6.9 million views. The agent hadn't malfunctioned. It
At the start of February 2026 I had one iOS app live in the App Store. As I write this at the end of May, I have ten, and a sustainable working pattern. Ten apps in roughly four months, built solo, on my Mac plus an iPad when in coffee shops. In this post I will try to extract the actionable insight
REST API Design: Building APIs Developers Love (2026) A good API is like a good UI — intuitive, consistent, and a pleasure to use. 1. Consistency over cleverness → Same patterns everywhere → Predictable response shapes → No surprises 2. Resources, not actions → GET /users (not /getUsers) → POST /use
The software industry has gone through several dramatic transitions over the past two decades. We moved from manual deployments to DevOps, from monoliths to microservices, and from scripted automation to AI-assisted development. Now another shift is happening — one that changes not only how we write
Every time I started a new agent session, I was re-explaining the same things. The architecture rules. The patterns to avoid. The decisions I'd already made. The approaches that already failed. The agent would forget everything and I'd be back to square one. My first instinct was to write better pro
Princeton researchers just released an open-source AI agent that autonomously fixes GitHub issues — and it's reshaping how developers think about automated software engineering. SWE-agent, developed by researchers from Princeton University and Stanford University, has earned 19,310 GitHub Stars sinc
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge I came into Google I/O 2026 expecting the normal AI announcement cycle. A faster model. A better demo. A few benchmark charts. Someone saying “agentic” at least 40 times. And yes, we got a lot of that. But one thing genuinely stuck with me: G
In modern software engineering, the gap between web platforms and native mobile applications is bridged by Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). For a high-performance system or web applications, a PWA transformation isn't just about aesthetics, it's about technical resilience, cross-platform compatibility,
I increasingly feel that browsers are carrying too much historical baggage. Today every browser ships gigantic subsystems: a JavaScript engine an HTML parser a CSS engine a DOM engine a rendering engine layout systems style systems compatibility layers for decades of legacy behavior Modern browser e
Hi everyone, my name is Greg. I've been working in web development since 2020. A few years ago, I started my journey into LeetCoding. Over this time, I've gathered several key insights that I'd like to share with you! It helps develop algorithmic and abstract thinking, and builds a solid foundation
