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Architecture
Thoughts on system design, API architecture and scalable solutions.
The Day Claude Deleted My Production Database
AI coding assistants are incredibly powerful until they decide to "fix" a corruption by wiping your database. A cautionary tale about backups and why dev boxes need them too.
read →Putting AI to Work in Your Laravel Backend
Laravel now has real tools for AI integration. Here's how to move beyond naive API calls and build structured, testable AI features with Prism and the official Laravel AI SDK.
The AI is Not Your Friend: How I Secured Gemini on This Site
Most 'AI integrations' are just a chat box and a prayer. Here is how I built a secure, contextual, and bilingual assistant using Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.
From Blind Generation to an AI Team: How to Take Back Control with Agents
Stop treating AI as a single author. Give it roles, let them argue, and you'll ship better software before you've written a single line of code.
The bureaucracy of bots: Why we are checking the checker
Deploying an AI to double-check the work of another AI produces better results. But we are unwittingly recreating the slow, complex corporate bureaucracy we tried to escape.
The Lava Layer: Why AI Code is Slowly Petrifying Your Codebase
We’re building faster than ever, but at what cost? Exploring the invisible accumulation of code that no one truly understands and why your application is turning into impenetrable rock.
The Magic of Tries and DFS: How I Made Glyphfall Lightning Fast
How a Trie and Depth-First Search with pruning turned a sluggish word finder into a blazing fast game engine for Glyphfall.