engineering
12 posts tagged engineering
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The EU AI Act's August 2026 Deadline: What Solo Devs Actually Need to Log
August 2, 2026 is when the EU AI Act's transparency and high-risk obligations actually bite. Here's what that means if you're not a Fortune 500 compliance team, just one person shipping an AI feature.
August 25, 2026 · 6 min read -
GDPR Blocked Bias Testing. The June 2026 Fix, Explained
You can't fix AI bias without the exact demographic data GDPR tells you to lock away. That contradiction sat there for years. In June 2026 the EU actually resolved it, with conditions.
August 25, 2026 · 6 min read -
I Ran Lighthouse on My Own Portfolio. It Was Not Flattering.
My own site's CLS score was 0.31, which is the kind of number you'd roast a client for shipping. Here's the actual fix, the actual before/after numbers, and the one image that was quietly costing everyone 648KB for no reason.
August 25, 2026 · 6 min read -
The $25 Million Call With No One Real On It
A finance employee at a British engineering firm joined a video call with his CFO and colleagues and wired $25.6 million after they approved it. None of them were real. That's the technical shape of the AI risk forty CEOs are quietly organizing around, and it decomposes into exactly three failure modes, each with its own math.
August 10, 2026 · 7 min read -
Bun Rewrote Itself From Zig to Rust in 11 Days and I Use Bun, So Now I'm a Little Nervous
Jarred Sumner ported 535,000 lines of Zig to Rust in 11 days using a fleet of Claude agents. I run bun install on this very portfolio. Let's talk about it.
July 16, 2026 · 5 min read -
SSH and Me: A Short, Slightly Funny History of the Little Padlock I Use Every Day
SSH gets blamed for problems it never caused, including one I personally accused it of last week. Here's the real history, how I actually use it, and what I still don't know about it.
July 14, 2026 · 5 min read -
Vibe Coding Is a Starting Point, Not a Strategy
Andrej Karpathy's phrase for AI-assisted, half-supervised programming took over the discourse fast. Here's where I think it's genuinely useful, and where I've watched it quietly wreck production codebases.
May 30, 2026 · 4 min read -
Why I Built Helix (And What Shipping an Agent Framework Actually Taught Me)
The story behind Helix Framework, why the existing agent tools weren't enough for what I was building at work, and what happened once strangers started using it.
March 9, 2026 · 4 min read -
What RAG Gets Wrong, and What to Do About It
A practical critique of retrieval-augmented generation as it's commonly implemented - the failure modes that don't show up in benchmarks.
February 5, 2026 · 5 min read -
The AI That Ships vs the AI That Demos
Why the most impressive demo you've ever seen is usually the least deployable system in the room.
January 12, 2026 · 5 min read -
What a Year Inside a GenAI Startup Actually Taught Me
Honest notes on the gap between what I expected to learn as an AI engineering intern and what I actually learned.
December 30, 2025 · 5 min read -
Terminal
On the quiet satisfaction of a blinking cursor and a blank line, waiting.
July 22, 2025 · 1 min read