Sharing insights, tutorials, and lessons learned from building real-world applications
AI tools lower the barrier to shipping code—but depth, judgment, and ownership still separate craft from orchestration. Reflections on what remains uniquely human in the AI era.
Scraping feels easy until the target moves. On structural volatility, silent failures, retries that mask fragility, and why maintenance—not extraction—is the real product.
Quiet expectations vs. messy reality: maintenance, vibe coding, and why the hardest parts of the job are often the least fun—and still the ones that matter.
Clever code ages poorly; boring code survives maintenance. On readability, future-proofing myths, AI-generated complexity, and why the dull solution is often the reliable one.
A reasonable ask—“make this less painful than Sheets”—became Ascendly. On under-naming platforms, quiet adoption, and the weird tax of raising the ceiling too successfully.
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