AI & Automation Articles
Using AI to build, test and ship software faster.
What Actually Changed in My Workflow After Two Years of AI Tools
Not the productivity multiplier the marketing promised, and not the nothing the sceptics predicted. Here is the honest accounting.
Using AI to Review Code Instead of Writing It
The highest-value use of AI I have found is not generating code — it is a second read of code I already wrote, with prompts aimed at specific failure...
Automating the Boring Parts of a Laravel Project
Every project has the same twenty minutes of setup, the same deploy steps, the same forgotten checks. Automating them once pays back on every project...
Prompting Patterns That Actually Work for Code Generation
The difference between AI output you throw away and AI output you ship is almost entirely in how you asked. Six patterns I use daily.
Building With AI Without Letting It Write Your Architecture
AI tools made me measurably faster — but only after I worked out which parts of the job to hand over and which parts to keep. Here is where the line s...
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