#ThoughtsProcess

The origin story of Lumo — why I decided to build an entire personal finance ecosystem from scratch, and what the first few weeks looked like.

Why does Claude rewrite your auth layer at 2am while Codex stares at a CSS bug and refuses to touch it without a screenshot?

After 6 days of testing Claude Opus 4.6 against Codex 5.3 on a production codebase, the benchmarks lie. One eats 9GB of RAM and architects chaos; the other surgically refactors but needs screenshots to fix CSS. Here's what the SWE-bench scores won't tell you about agentic coding in 2026.

New Anthropic research reveals AI coding assistants might be stunting developer growth. Here's why your Copilot addiction is creating a skills crisis—and what to do about it.

Everything Is a Wrapper: Seeing Software (and Life) Differently

From 'YOLO' deployments to informed decisions! Learn how solo dev Abdul Rafay tackles error logging & crash reporting with BugFender (mobile) & Axiom (web)

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!