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

April 2025·Developer Tools·10 min read

How I use Git worktrees to work on 4 things at once without losing my mind

I had a production hotfix, two feature branches, and a code review all due by end of day. Stashing was not going to cut it.

April 2026·Engineering Stories·12 min read

The hardest bug I ever fixed took three days and zero lines of code

The bug crashed production every Tuesday at 2 AM. Only Tuesday. Only 2 AM. The logs showed nothing. The monitoring showed nothing. Three days later I found it - and the fix was not code.

May 2026·AI Engineering·12 min read

How I test AI-generated code before I trust it

AI can write code quickly. That does not make the code safe, maintainable, or production-ready. Over time I built a testing workflow that treats AI output like a fast junior teammate: useful, productive, and never above verification.

June 2026·AI Engineering·12 min read

Human-in-the-loop is not a fallback. It is the product.

The strongest automation systems I trust are not the ones that pretend humans disappeared. They are the ones that know exactly when a human should stay in the loop, what decision that human should make, and how the system should continue afterward.

August 2026·AI Engineering·12 min read

Idempotency is the hidden contract of reliable AI automation

Retries are easy until an agent sends the same email twice, creates two tickets, or charges for one request more than once. Reliable automation begins by making repeated execution safe.

July 2026·PHP & Laravel·12 min read

Is Laravel too magical?

Laravel gets called magical when it hides work developers expected to see. After years of building PHP systems, I think the real question is not whether Laravel has magic. It is whether your team knows where the magic ends.

July 2026·PHP & Laravel·12 min read

Why Laravel queues are the backbone of reliable AI automation

An AI feature can look impressive in a request-response demo and still collapse in production. Queues turn slow, unpredictable model calls into workflows that can be retried, inspected, limited, and trusted.

February 2026·Developer Tools·11 min read

Why I chose Laravel Zero for a CLI tool - and what it taught me about framework selection

I needed to build a CLI tool that could orchestrate Docker containers, manage Git worktrees, allocate ports, and run a 9-stage pipeline in under a minute. I evaluated five options. The winner surprised me.