Knowledge
Guardrails Before Capabilities
The instinct with a new agent is to make it do more. The discipline is to first decide what it must never do. That order is not a detail. It is the design.
Spec Before Prompt
AI can write the feature and still have no idea why it exists. The fix is not a better prompt. It is a spec the agent and the team both work from.
Migrating Off Firebase Without Downtime
Rebuilding a live product on a new database and auth system, without logging anyone out or losing a record. The plan we use when the ground has to move under a running app.
One Backend, No Regrets: Server Actions at Scale
You can build a serious product without a separate API tier. Here is how we structure Next.js server actions so the logic stays sane as the app grows.
Core Web Vitals Are a Feature, Not a Report Card
Performance is not an audit you cram for the week before launch. It is product work, and the teams that treat it that way win quietly and permanently.
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Interfaces That Earn Trust When the Machine Talks Back
Designing an AI product is not designing a chat box. It is designing for the moments a user has to decide whether to believe what the machine just said.
Why We Build on Models the Week They Ship
Adopting new models early sounds reckless. Done with the right safeguards, it is the opposite. Here is how we live on the frontier without betting the product on it.
What "Ship Fast" Actually Costs
Speed is a real advantage and a real liability, depending on what you spend it on. An honest accounting of where moving fast pays off and where it quietly bankrupts you.