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Opinions

What's wrong with StackOverflow

I have been a StackOverflow member for over 6 years now and as most developers nowadays, visit it a few times a day looking for possible…

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Security,  Opinions

Software security is a culture not a calendar event

As technology continues to evolve, the importance of security in software and infrastructure becomes more and more critical. However, many…

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Technology,  AI,  Opinions

DeepSeek R1 and the week the pricing story broke

I spend my working life thinking about systems, vendors, and risk. So when DeepSeek dropped R1 in late January and the internet spent a week…

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Technology,  AI,  Code,  Opinions

Vibe Coding: An Honest Take After Three Years of AI-Assisted Development

Long time no see. Three years ago I wrote a post about the dawn of the ChatGPT era and how it felt like we were standing at a genuinely…

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Opinions,  Code,  Technology

Training juniors in the AI era — judgment, struggle, and why the field still needs new data

I wrote separately about how day-to-day coding with AI has changed the job. That story is mostly about people who already have a mental…