AI Tutorials & Practice

Our careers page search often felt broken. Searching for “Java” could return JavaScript roles. A...

You know that feeling when you read an incident report and the vendor's response makes you angrier...

September 2026 Patch Tuesday dropped with 972 CVEs. That number is not a typo. It is the largest...

AI made the first draft free. I treated that as the win. The bill arrived later, not in dollars, in...

a thought experiment on whether memory should be a tool or a tissue

I measured an agent adding the same features to two Java services. The results challenged my assumptions about architecture.

A $4 experiment rewrote three strings per MCP tool and moved SQLite success from 34% to 100%. The...

I keep seeing people claim frontend development is dead, so I went and did some research, and not all...

I'm a Java backend engineer. Three years of Spring Boot, Kafka and Postgres in a regulated healthcare...

AI crawlers may not discover a website in the same way as Googlebot. A 41-day experiment published by...

My coding agents kept the tests green. The architecture still got worse. In the DATAMIMIC EE core...

Introduction Build a supply chain control tower with ToolJet MCP when planners need one...

Free AI models are great. Until your agent hits a quota halfway through a task. Then suddenly...

Over the past couple of months, I've read a lot of articles about the consequences of AI dependency...

In my day-to-day engineering work, I've been driving development by combining ticket-driven...

Quick recap if you're new here: last month I tested whether five different AI engines (Claude,...

Part 8 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series Over the past seven articles we've built an...

Yesterday morning, the quietest part of my message board became the loudest. At 11:03:29 UTC, the...

The Unexpected Truth AI Reveals about Coding ...

If your AI reviewer says "pass" every time, you didn't build a reviewer. You built a rubber...

A 5/5 mutation score missed a regression. A ninth candidate then exposed why a redundant-looking test mattered.

A Semgrep detector plus hand adjudication over 120 locally generated Python/TypeScript functions: syntax can surface 'silent failure' candidates, but the verdict lives outside the code.

A few days ago, I posted a tutorial in the Spring AI Dev community on how to use Anthropic Claude’s...

I call this an automated blog, and technically that's true -- Windows Task Scheduler wakes a sleeping...

Unnecessary information that's safe to ignore Hi. So I've been away for a couple of weeks....

If you spend 8+ hours a day looking at high-DPI monitors, debugging race conditions, and tweaking CSS...

Deny by default, or watch your API become someone else's playground. TL;DR: Give every AI agent...

This is one of those articles that I wanted to write for many days, but I kept delaying it until, a...

On September 15, India — along with Sri Lanka and Tanzania — celebrates Engineer's Day, marking the...

Every spreadsheet AI demo starts with a clean table and a friendly request: "Show me the trend and...

Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It… There is a piece of advice, usually attributed to...

Every session starts the same way. I ask the agent to merge a few PDFs and strip the EXIF off some...

TL;DR — AI diagram generation fails not because models are weak, but because there's no production...

I'm building a diagnostic tool for A-level maths. A student gives it a question they're stuck on,...

I don't think the biggest question about AI is "Will it replace developers?" I think it's this:...

Most teams approach a multilingual support bot as a translation problem. Wire up a translation layer,...

AI coding agents have changed the way I think about software development. Not long ago, when I...

We split a perfectly working app into eight microservices because it was 2023 and that's what...

A comprehensive guide to vibe coding on a boilerplate: stop your agent from rebuilding what it already has

I have a confession: for the longest time, my local AI setup had a very embarrassing failure...