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Thoughts on AI engineering, responsible automation, and building systems that matter.

September 2026·AI Engineering·13 min read

What AI code generation changes about technical leadership

AI makes implementation cheaper, but judgment stays scarce. Technical leaders need stronger constraints, review systems, and team learning loops.

September 2026·PHP & Laravel·12 min read

What Laravel developers can learn from Symfony

Five Symfony habits make Laravel code clearer: explicit dependencies, focused services, safer configuration and visible failures. Try the checklist.

September 2026·AI Engineering·14 min read

AI Is Writing Code Faster Than Humans Can Review It

AI creates pull requests faster than teams can review them. Compare review tools, test-first development, and a safer workflow for keeping up.

September 2026·AI Engineering·11 min read

Why Quality Assurance Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI-Generated Code

Quality assurance for AI-generated code needs human judgment. See my three-stage workflow for review, manual testing, and safer delivery.

September 2026·Open Source·12 min read

What maintaining open-source PHP software teaches you about API design

Learn PHP API design lessons from maintaining Dawn: compatibility contracts, explicit failures, release discipline, and tests that protect users.

September 2026·AI Engineering·12 min read

Laravel and LLMs: queues, streaming responses and failure handling

Connect Laravel and LLMs with queues, streaming responses and safe failure handling. Learn how to recover without losing results or duplicating work.

September 2026·AI Engineering·11 min read

Dead-letter queues are not where failed jobs go to die

A dead-letter queue is useful only when it helps you understand, repair and safely replay failed work. Otherwise it is just a quieter way to lose data.

August 2026·Open Source·7 min read

Why open source matters: what my first upstream contribution taught me

Building Dawn taught me how to publish open-source software. Contributing real CodeBuild execution to MiniStack taught me what open source actually means: turning a private frustration into a shared improvement.