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Agentic Programming: Why Most Developers Are Preparing for the Wrong AI Future
The shift from writing code to orchestrating systems is happening faster than you think
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Web development
Opinionated articles on frameworks, rendering strategies, frontend complexity, performance tradeoffs, and building faster with less unnecessary machinery.
This category is where I push back hardest on web-development fashion. Most teams are not losing because they picked the wrong trendy stack. They’re losing because they added too much machinery before they earned the complexity.
Start with these:
- The 2026 Web Development Roadmap Nobody’s Saying Out Loud
- Why I Stopped Defaulting to React for Every Project
- Why I Build Everything With Astro Now (And Stopped Reaching for Next.js)
- HTMX Is Overkill (Until Your React Bundle Explodes)
- I Removed Sass From My Build Pipeline (And You Probably Should Too)
If you’re trying to simplify how you ship on the web, start here.
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Why I Build Everything With Astro Now (And Stopped Reaching for Next.js)
After shipping a dozen production sites, I've learned that islands architecture and minimal JavaScript beat universal JavaScript every time.
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Vibe Coding Is Just Prompting with Better Guardrails
Why treating AI-generated code like untrusted third-party dependencies changes everything
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Why JAMstack Teams Are Quietly Moving to Composable Architecture
Static sites were revolutionary. Then we asked them to do too much.
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Why I Stopped Defaulting to React for Every Project
After years of watching teams drown in JavaScript complexity, I'm back to building most apps with server-rendered frameworks—and shipping faster than ever.
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Ruby vs PHP in 2025: Why This Debate Misses the Point Entirely
One language optimizes for developer joy, the other for getting hired. Both choices have consequences.
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