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Learning With AI Coding Assistants: Why Careful Review Isn't Enough
Fifty years of learning research says the "review it carefully" habit is the condition that loses. Here are the sixty seconds that change it.
Sep 7, 202612 min read
Your Database Is Fine. Your App Is Dying Anyway.
Your app throws 'timeout acquiring connection' under load while the database sits at 12% CPU. It's connection pool exhaustion — a hidden queue in your app, and the fix is a smaller pool, not a bigger one.
Sep 6, 20269 min read
Two Transactions, Frozen Forever: The Deadlock Explained
A 'deadlock detected' error isn't random. Deadlocks happen for one avoidable reason — inconsistent lock order — and the fix is a two-part strategy: prevent most, survive the rest.
Sep 2, 20269 min read1
Everyone's Building AI Agents. Almost No One Will Trust Them.
AI agents are a real breakthrough — and expensive, unreliable, and hard to control at the same time. Here's why, and the autonomy framework that makes them actually usable.
Sep 1, 20268 min read4
Your Database Transaction Didn't Save You From This Bug
You wrapped it in BEGIN and COMMIT and thought it was safe. Then money vanished under real traffic. Here's the lost-update race condition, why transactions don't stop it, and three fixes.
Aug 30, 20269 min read
AI Won't Take Your Coding Job. It Will Do Something Stranger.
AI isn't replacing software engineers — it's inverting the job. The part you were hired for is becoming cheap, and verification and judgment are becoming the whole game. Here's how to adapt.
Aug 29, 20268 min read