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Technical writing on backend systems, architecture decisions, and engineering trade-offs.
Vibe Coding vs. Agentic Engineering: The Shift from Prompting to Systems
Vibe coding took the industry by storm as a fun, effortless way to prompt software into existence. But as professional codebases began buckling under unmaintainable tech debt, a new consensus emerged: Agentic Engineering. Here is an honest, source-backed look at the trade-offs of both paradigms.
The Agentic Flip: Why I Ditched Heavy Frontier Models for Gemini 3.5 Flash and Haiku
High-volume agentic coding doesn't require multi-dollar frontier models. By combining a strict local orchestrator (Plan, Implement, Test, Review) with ultra-fast, cheap models like Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) and Claude 4.5 Haiku, I cut AI costs while boosting iteration speed.
Building a Serverless Comment System: Astro, Giscus, and GitHub Actions Automation
A deep dive into integrating the Giscus comment system into Astro 4.x, resolving View Transitions lifecycle bugs, and automating GitHub Discussions pre-creation via the GraphQL API.
Microsoft MAI Debuts: The Dawn of Redmond's AI Independence
At Build 2026, Microsoft launched the MAI model family—marking a major pivot toward in-house model ownership and 'humanist superintelligence.' Here is a technical teardown of the models and the strategic shift.
6,000 Credits in an 8-Hour Workday: The Broken Economics of Copilot Enterprise
How a single day of agentic coding evaporated a corporate AI budget. An analysis of GitHub's new metered billing, why paying 1:1 API rates inside a premium SaaS license is unsustainable, and what it means for engineering organizations.