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Vetted Software: What It Means Now That AI Can Generate Code
AI has made code faster to produce, but dependable software still requires product judgement, verification and operational ownership.
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What Two AI CTO Seats Teach You About Building Software Customers Actually Use
AMPD and CarBuddy AI sit at different points in the customer journey, but they keep teaching the same lesson: the hard part is not…
The Best Vibe Coding Tool for Non-Technical People
If you’re not a programmer but want to harness the power of AI to build software, create websites, or automate tasks, the landscape of…
“Let’s Just Do It Manually”: A Love Letter to Technical Debt
There’s a special place in my heart for those five words. Right next to “the build works on my machine” and “we’ll document it…
Scaling from MVP in Lovable: The WordPress Lesson for Modern Startups
Lovable (formerly GPT Engineer) is brilliant for getting your startup from idea to MVP at lightning speed. You can ship a working product in…
Why I Chose Cal.com Over Calendly for My DevOps Consultancy
Why I Chose Cal.com Over Calendly for My DevOps Consultancy As an indie founder building AlanOps, I needed a booking system that felt professional…
🎣 I’m Hooked on Claude Code Hooks: Why This Changes Agentic Coding Forever
🧠 Watch the original video by IndyDevDan Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting heavily with agentic coding — building systems where AI…
The Ultimate Claude Code Playbook
A comprehensive guide to maximizing productivity with Claude Code based on proven community strategies and best practices. Table of Contents Foundation: The CLAUDE.md System…
Google’s Gemini CLI vs Anthropic’s Claude Code: A comprehensive analysis of command-line AI coding tools
Google’s June 2025 release of Gemini CLI marks a pivotal moment in the AI coding tools landscape, introducing an open-source command-line interface that directly…
Claude Code, DevOps & Munger’s Machine Tool: Why You’d Be a Fool Not to Use AI
Everyone seems to have an opinion about AI tools like Claude Code, Copilot Chat, and Gemini CLI. And a lot of that opinion boils…
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