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AI tools are the most powerful thing to hit software development in a decade. They're also the easiest way to build a career on a foundation of sand. Here's what I cover when I talk to a group of junior developers — honest, practical, and no hype.
When a client needed to coordinate nurse assignments across 15 hospitals in real time, polling wasn't going to cut it. Here's the architecture we landed on — WebSockets, Redis pub/sub, and a rule-based scheduling engine that runs without a hitch in a live clinical environment.
Shipping an LLM-powered feature to production is different from running a notebook. Here's how we built a real-time inference pipeline for an automated detection system — handling job queuing, streaming responses, and failure recovery at the backend level.
When we decided to consolidate three years of ad-hoc AWS configurations into proper IaC, we chose Pulumi over Terraform. A year and a half later, here's an honest look at what worked, what didn't, and what I'd do differently.
We inherited a large TypeScript codebase with strict mode off. Turning it on revealed 400+ errors. Here's how we migrated incrementally, what the errors actually taught us about the code, and why it was worth the three-sprint investment.