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Last Tuesday, I stared at my Stripe dashboard with that familiar pit in my stomach. Churn had ticked up to 3.8%, and I knew exactly why — our product descriptio
I broke up with GitHub Copilot last month. Well, "broke up" is dramatic — we're still seeing each other at work. But for my personal projects? I'm with someone
Last month, my OpenAI bill hit $4,837. I nearly spat out my coffee. For context, that's more than my rent in Barcelona. Pieter Levels once tweeted that "AI cost
I've been burned by AI coding tools before. Remember that horror story last month about Copilot suggesting sudo rm -rf / in a bash script? Yeah, I've been in th
Last month, I had what felt like a galaxy-brain idea: what if an AI could manage our entire development pipeline? Not just write code snippets—I'm talking PR re
Last Tuesday at 2am, I was staring at 47,000 lines of spaghetti code thinking "this is fine" while my churn rate quietly climbed to 6.8%. By Thursday night, Cla
TIL that Cursor Rules isn't just some glorified .cursorrules file — it's basically a prompt injection system that silently feeds your AI assistant context befor
Meta Description: I spent a weekend stress-testing Cursor 0.5's Agent and Composer modes against production Terraform configs. Here's what surprised me, what fa
Last Tuesday at 2 AM, I was staring at my AWS bill with that specific kind of dread you only get when you've been haemorrhaging money on something you barely un
I almost shut down my SaaS six months ago. Not exaggerating—I was staring at a 12% monthly churn rate, support tickets were literally drowning me, and I was sle
Last Tuesday at 2 AM, I found myself deep in DeepSeek's API documentation, running benchmarks I definitely wasn't supposed to be running. My excuse? "Competitiv
I remember sitting in a conference room at Stripe in March 2023, watching an engineer demo a prototype built with LangChain v0.0.142. The demo worked flawlessly