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    AI Docs That Don't Lie to Your Users · 4 min Most AI documentation systems retrieve the wrong version, hallucinate details, and never admit uncertainty. Here's how to build one that actually helps. engineering ai llm MCP in Practice: Building Tool Servers in Go · 7 min Model Context Protocol promises to standardize how AI talks to tools. I built an MCP server in Go to see if the promise holds up. Here's what I found. agents ai go Let AI Write Your First Draft, Not Your Docs · 3 min AI is a decent drafting assistant for technical docs. It's a terrible replacement for ownership. engineering ai developer-experience Most AI Developer Tools Are Not Worth Adopting Yet · 3 min The AI tooling landscape is exploding. Most of it adds complexity without removing real friction. Here is how I decide what earns a spot in the stack. ai developer-experience opinion I Tracked My AI-Assisted Coding for Three Months. Here Are the Numbers. · 5 min After three months of tracking Copilot and GPT-4 usage across real projects, the productivity picture is messier than the marketing suggests. ai developer-experience productivity AI Code Review: What It Actually Catches (And What It Misses) · 4 min After three months of using AI-assisted code review across multiple projects, here's what actually works and what's just noise. ai engineering developer-experience Five Days With ChatGPT · 4 min First impressions of ChatGPT from a working engineer. It is not a search engine, it is not a colleague, and it is definitely not a replacement. But it is something. ai llm developer-experience My Honest Take on GitHub Copilot After Six Months · 5 min Six months with Copilot in real projects. What it actually helps with, where it quietly makes things worse, and why the productivity claims are overblown. ai developer-experience productivity Platform Engineering: DevOps Grew Up · 4 min Platform engineering is what happens when you realize 'you build it, you run it' does not scale past a handful of teams. platform-engineering devops developer-experience Monorepo vs. Polyrepo: A Practical Decision Guide · 4 min Monorepo or polyrepo depends on coupling, team shape, and your appetite for build tooling. Here is how to decide without getting religious about it. architecture development developer-experience Your Engineering Docs Are Probably Useless · 4 min Most engineering documentation is ignored for predictable reasons. Here is how to write docs that people actually read. engineering developer-experience teams Your Onboarding Is Broken. Here's the Fix. · 4 min Most engineering onboarding wastes the first week on access requests and context overload. The fix is simple: ship a real PR by day three. hiring leadership teams Most Platform Teams Are Building the Wrong Thing · 6 min Most platform teams build tools nobody asked for while developers wait in ticket queues. Lessons from maturity assessments at a dozen enterprises. platform-engineering devops developer-experience GitHub Copilot: First Impressions From a Go Developer · 4 min I got early access to GitHub Copilot's technical preview. Here's what it actually does well, what it gets wrong, and why I'm cautiously interested. developer-experience ai go Developer Portals: The Thing Nobody Wants to Build But Everyone Needs · 5 min What I learned helping large telecoms build internal developer portals, and why the service catalog is the only part that actually matters on day one. platform-engineering developer-experience How I Build CLI Tools in Go (And Why I Stopped Overthinking It) · 8 min A deep dive into building Go CLIs that feel right: cobra patterns, structured output, signal handling, and the small decisions that separate a script from a tool. developer-experience go Internal Platforms vs. Ad-Hoc Tooling: Which Developer Experience Actually Wins · 6 min Purpose-built internal platforms versus the organic tooling teams build for themselves -- and when each approach actually delivers. developer-experience platform-engineering devops Your Internal Platform Is Probably a Liability · 3 min Most internal developer platforms fail because nobody treated them like a product. Lessons from building (and scrapping) platform tooling at three startups. platform-engineering devops developer-experience
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