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AI Agents Ate My Boilerplate: What Actually Works in Enterprise Banking

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AI Agents Ate My Boilerplate: What Actually Works in Enterprise Banking

Five AI agents I run inside a bank, what each one is allowed to decide, and the three places they still get it wrong. Every one is a queue worker, not a chat window.

July 9, 2026Read

The 2-Hour Claude Setup That Made Everything Click

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The 2-Hour Claude Setup That Made Everything Click

Seven files, 115 minutes, and prompts that drop from 800 words to twelve. The exact Claude Projects setup I use, what each file prevents, and the one step that actually compounds.

May 24, 2026Read

Building Production AI Agents That Actually Work

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Building Production AI Agents That Actually Work

A model-calling job on my own site timed out three times and wrote nothing. Here are the timeout, schema, fallback and tracing rules I apply to every agent now, with the numbers from that incident.

March 6, 2026Read

Cutting LLM API Costs 60%: A Production RAG Post-Mortem

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Cutting LLM API Costs 60%: A Production RAG Post-Mortem

A live client RAG system on Next.js, Convex, Qdrant and OpenAI billed $4,200 in one week. Five stacked changes took week six to $1,680. No rewrite, no migration, no downtime.

March 6, 2026Read

The Tailwind Tsunami: How a CSS Framework's Collapse Signals the End of Software Development as We Knew It

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The Tailwind Tsunami: How a CSS Framework's Collapse Signals the End of Software Development as We Knew It

The Tailwind Tsunami: AI is vaporizing software development's economic foundations. Discover the verification-first engineering blueprint to ship AI-assisted code with higher confidence than ever.

January 25, 2026Read

How I Built an AI Agent for my Portfolio (Yabasha.dev) using Laravel & Next.js

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How I Built an AI Agent for my Portfolio (Yabasha.dev) using Laravel & Next.js

One observer, one queued job, one model call, and a heuristic that runs when the model fails. This is the version that survived, and what I had to remove from the version I first wrote about.

December 19, 2025Read

The CRUD Era is Dead: Why Pure Full-Stack Developers Are Becoming Obsolete

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The CRUD Era is Dead: Why Pure Full-Stack Developers Are Becoming Obsolete

After 20 years building web apps, I'm calling it: the CRUD era is over. Users don't want digital filing cabinets anymore—they want applications that understand, generate, and anticipate. Here's what the new AI full-stack skill set looks like, with real Laravel code.

December 10, 2025Read

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