Studio Journal
A curated stream of engineering stories, product explorations, and opinionated guides. Written with clarity, built for people who ship.
Fresh insights and practical experiments.
Spent 50 hours on GPT-5 for Flutter development: fixing bugs, adding features to MS Bridge. My honest take on OpenAI's 'game-changer' claims for software engineers.
Discover how I used Cursor CLI with GPT‑5 to transform a plain Python app into a polished, local-first tool with charts, PDF export, and multi-window support.
Dive into a real-world review of GPT-5 with tasks like fixing GTM issues, building a Jetpack Joyride clone, upgrading Astro UIs, and automating marketing workflows. Not just benchmarks—this is AI in action.
Can free AI tools build a full web application? A software engineer rigorously tests Lovable, Chef, & Orchids on UI, DB, and scalability. Uncover AI code generation's real limits!
Unpack the Tea App hack: discover how poor backend design, Firebase misconfigurations, and direct database access led to millions of users' data being exposed. Learn crucial lessons for secure API architecture.
