Posted on Fri 11 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, coding-assistants, career, opinion
Every developer who came up before 2023 has the same memory: copy a stack trace, paste it into Google, land on a Stack Overflow answer, copy that code back into the project, and move on — sometimes without fully understanding why the fix worked. It was a …
Posted on Thu 10 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, coding-assistants, career, opinion
This question hits close to home for me. I'm a beginner, learning GenAI while also trying to grow as a developer, and I keep seeing the same headline everywhere: AI coding assistants are writing more and more production code, and juniors are the ones supposedly getting …
Posted on Sat 05 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, model-scaling, opinion
Every few months there's a new "frontier model" release with bigger benchmarks, more parameters, longer context windows. And every few months, right alongside it, someone shows a clever prompting technique that gets a much smaller, cheaper model to match or beat a bigger one on the …
Posted on Fri 04 September 2026 in Beginner Guide • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, deep-learning, tokenization, beginner
You type a message into ChatGPT or Claude, hit send, and a few seconds later, words start appearing on screen. For most people, that gap in between is a black box. For a beginner learning GenAI, understanding what actually happens in that gap is one of the …
Posted on Thu 03 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-wrappers, opinion, startups
Spend five minutes on any tech forum and you'll find someone dismissing a new AI product as "just a wrapper around GPT/Claude." It's become the go-to insult in GenAI circles — implying the product has no real technology, no moat, nothing defensible. Just a thin UI …
Posted on Wed 02 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-agents, opinion, trends
Every timeline, every newsletter, every product launch this year has the word "agent" stapled to it. Agentic this, autonomous that. It's gotten to the point where "agent" has almost lost meaning — sometimes it means a genuinely autonomous multi-step system, and sometimes it just means "a chatbot …
Posted on Tue 01 September 2026 in Tutorial • Tagged with FastAPI, Python, networking, uvicorn, backend, deployment
When you're setting up a FastAPI app for the first time, it's tempting to just run uvicorn main:app --port 80 and call it a day — no need to remember a weird port number, just hit the domain directly. But if you've tried this, you've probably already …
Posted on Sat 29 August 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, opinion, career
A year ago, "prompt engineer" was being talked about as a serious job title — some companies even hired for it with six-figure salaries attached. Fast forward to now, and I keep seeing the opposite take everywhere: that prompt engineering is basically over, that models got smart …
Posted on Fri 28 August 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with EffortCommerce, GenAI, LLM, valuation, contribution-economy, opinion
When I first wrote about EffortCommerce, I left one problem unsolved on purpose: valuation. If effort is the currency, someone — or something — has to decide how much an hour of expert legal advice is worth compared to an hour of data entry, or how a well-written …
Posted on Wed 26 August 2026 in Tokens • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, tokens, tokenization, pricing, beginner
If you've used the OpenAI or Claude API even once, you've seen the word "tokens" everywhere — in the pricing page, in the error messages ("context length exceeded"), in the response object. For a beginner, this is confusing. Why not just charge per word? Or per API call …