Archive
2026
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EU Pay Transparency Directive: A Shift in Hiring Culture
The EU Pay Transparency Directive comes into effect in June 2026. This post explores its impact on recruitment workflows, candidate rights, and company culture.
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The Myth of the Code Reader: Why AI Agents Are the Better Senior Engineers
Many think senior developers will only read and review AI code in the future. This is wrong. With good tooling and files like decision.md, agents learn faster than human teams.
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Engineering Excellence or Brain Rot? The AI Development Paradox
Why AI in software development needs more than just a prompt. Lessons from legacy code, greenfield success, and the investment required for a clean baseline.
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The hidden cost of vibe coding and AI agents
AI agents help us code fast. But "it works" is not the same as 'it is good'. We look at real risks for security, quality, and accessibility in 2026.
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Prompting is not everything — Why the tool matters
I tested Claude, Gemini, and Copilot with a "Zero-Shot" CV generator task. The results show that a good prompt needs a strong engine to work.
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The Agentic Design Workflow - Orchestrating MCP and AI for Scale
Explore how MCP Apps, the Figma MCP Server, and Storybook MCP form a continuous design system flow, replacing manual handoffs with AI-driven orchestration that turns annotations and tokens into production-ready code without pixel-perfect mockups.
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The DIDit Paradox – When Digital Sovereignty Burns the Planet
As the open-source community celebrates Digital Independence Day, we must face a hard truth. Decentralizing from Big Tech often comes with a massive, hidden environmental cost.
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Optimized into Irrelevance – When AI does the thinking for us
AI promises efficiency but risks optimizing web design into irrelevance. Explore how to break the feedback loop of uniform design and use AI to boost, rather than replace, your brand's soul.