Career & Leadership
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PgVector for AI Memory in Production Applications
PgVector is a PostgreSQL extension designed to enhance memory in AI applications by storing and querying vector embeddings. This enables large language models (LLMs) to retrieve accurate information, personalize responses, and reduce…
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The SaaS Model Isn’t Dead, it’s Evolving Beyond the Hype of “Vibe Coding”
The article critiques the rise of “vibe coding,” emphasizing the distinction between quick prototypes and genuine MVPs. It argues that while AI can accelerate product development, true success relies on accountability, stability,…
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The AI Detox Movement: Why Engineers Are Taking Back Their Code
In 2025, AI tools transformed coding but led developers to struggle with debugging and understanding their code. This sparked the concept of “AI detox,” a period where developers intentionally stop using AI…
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Returning to the Rails World: What’s New and Exciting in Rails 8 and Ruby 3.3+
It’s 2025, and coming back to Ruby on Rails feels like stepping into a familiar city only to find new skyscrapers, electric trams, and an upgraded skyline.The framework that once defined web…
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What You Should Learn to Master but Never Ship
Every engineer should build a few things from scratch search, auth, caching just to understand how much complexity lives beneath the surface. But the real skill isn’t rolling your own; it’s knowing…
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?? → BI → ML → AI → ??
AI’s past and the future Where acronyms in business come from, what they sold, who won, and what might come after “AI” Acronyms are the currency of business storytelling. They compress complex…
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The Vibe Code Tax
Momentum is the oxygen of startups. Lose it, and you suffocate. Getting it back is harder than creating it in the first place. Here’s the paradox founders hit early: Both paths kill.…
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Is AI Slowing Everyone Down?
Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed an AI gold rush. Companies of every size are racing to “adopt AI” before their competitors do, layering chatbots, content tools, and automation into their…
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20+ Years as a CTO: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Being a CTO isn’t what it looks like from the outside. There are no capes, no magic formulas, and certainly no shortcuts. After more than two decades leading engineering teams, shipping products,…
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Stop procrastinating! How to prevent it.
Still trying to stop procrastinating? There are probably numerous days that you site behind the computer to do some research or get some work done and doing a short break to read some…