LLMs in everyday development — where they help and where they get in the way
I built this blog together with a language model. No hype: what went fast, where the model got things wrong, and the one rule that mattered most.
What food delivery taught me about engineering
I'm a developer who ended up co-founding a delivery service. A kitchen at peak hour turned out to be the best systems-design school I've had.
E-wallets — what matters more than code in payment systems
Twice in my career I've built an e-wallet — in 2010 and almost a decade later. The technology changed completely; the lessons that mattered didn't.
Bots read my blog more than people do
One week of stats from a new blog: 92 human visits and 122 bot visits. Who these bots are, why they come, and what the AI crawlers are up to.
Building a site for AI, not just for Google
What it actually takes for language models to understand your site: what works, an honest look at llms.txt, and one fact that matters more than all the structured data.
Integrations eat more time than the product itself
When you plan a system, it feels like the "product" is the main thing. Then it turns out most of the time goes not into it, but into wiring up other people's systems.
From developer to product
Over the years I've learned that the programming language isn't the point. What matters far more is turning an idea into a working product — with a whole system behind it.