AI Tutorials & Practice

A review protocol that challenges the scheme first, then the code, then stops. Full prompt included.

I build and sell Reestri, a small catalog of paid Apify actors that answer one kind of question: who...

Most "AI-powered" side projects follow the same arc: a slick demo, a hardcoded API key, one shared...

How I added a deterministic trace contract to an AI Terraform reviewer so rejected infrastructure...

A portfolio website should make it easy for a potential client to answer three questions: What do you...

Quick answer: the best academic search API for AI agents in 2026 is Valyu, because it is the only one...

My hot take is: Telling people that they have to build endlessly is very, very, very bad advice. If...

If your AI application suddenly becomes 300–500ms slower after adding an AI gateway, the first...

Useful AI agents keep forcing a bad choice: lock the environment down until it is useless, or hand the agent your real machine. ShrekOS is my attempt to move that trust decision below the agent, into the operating system.

Anthropic removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, and...

Your coding agent is good at reading code. Point Claude Code or Cursor at a repo and it...

Since 2026 every Shopify storefront answers an agent-commerce endpoint at POST /api/ucp/mcp,...

Most difficult agent incidents begin with one question: Why did the agent do that? Why did it...

I built GeoMart for OpenAI's WebMCP Challenge: a storefront where a human fills in a live,...

I don't remember the last time I pasted an error into Google. Not the date. I mean the habit left...

Rather pretend not to know than pretend to know and act on it. Stay still. Hide the move. Wait like...

Every serious engineering organization has spent decades building governance around one artifact:...

Have you ever read a job posting and your heart just sings the song of "HIRE ME PLEASE!!!", yeah,...

Before the world knew it was a product of Z.ai, a massive Chinese tech player, this model was running...

here's a meme we've all posted some version of. "My code works and I have no idea why." Classic....

For the last month, every AI coding session on this machine ran under grith, which intercepts every...

A real estate website can generate a buyer inquiry in seconds, but one wrong chatbot answer can undo...

My last article shared the high-level architecture of KODA (my AI coding mentor built on a POCO C55)....

If you are using AI coding assistants like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, or ChatGPT, you have...

TL;DR I learned and applied Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral Markdown-and-YAML format...

Why tool scoping matters more than anything the model is told Part 7 findings of an experiment:...

Something strange has been happening lately, I keep forgetting small things. Not names. Not...

While making social media creatives for clients. AI tools design them fine now, but the output is one...

You are likely using Cursor wrong. Here is how to set boundaries for the AI so it stops hallucinating your architecture and starts delivering usable code.

The junior's pull request appeared fantastic. They had made clean commits, maintained a tidy...

A worked example of the frontmatter contract, and a short threat model for agents that are allowed to call tools.

Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own...

Three real patterns for gating an agent before it does something irreversible, drawn from projects I built.

Here's a fact that surprises people new to Kubernetes and should genuinely alarm them a little: by...

Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own...

There is a ceiling on your test coverage and it is not technical. Running tests has been a solved...

My publish-pass agent hit a beat that no source label could satisfy — every relabel that cleared one automated gate tripped another, provably, by arithmetic. The fix wasn't to relabel harder; it was a recorded, attributable waiver, reserve…

I run Claude Code across eleven projects at the same time. Not eleven files. Eleven separate...

Every week someone asks which coding agent is better, and every answer is a vibe. I wanted a...

I have been building an AI-native PCB editor for a few months. Before I wrote a line of it, I did the...