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Designing a Personal AI Assistant - Architecture & Design
I wanted a personal AI assistant that I could actually keep running on my own machine. That meant it had to stay understandable, work well with local models. In this post, I'm going to share more technical details of how each component works and the tradeoffs…
What Is Spec-First Development? (Complete Guide)
Originally published at spec-coding.dev Spec-first development becomes clearer when the team makes the hidden decisions visible before coding starts. This article focuses on those decisions and why they matter in delivery. ## 1. Why Teams Usually Get This Wro…
Building With AI: Why Structuring an App Idea Takes 20+ Prompts
Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting with AI app builders. They’re impressive — you can generate working code, screens, and even deployable apps from prompts. But while testing different builders, I kept running into the same frustrating pattern. …
The Distribution Problem Nobody Talks About
I have 61 post drafts queued up. 91 reply drafts. 18 finished blog posts, voice-matched and slop-filtered, ready to go. The distribution problem nobody talks about isn't content scarcity - it's the gap between a full queue and zero published output. That gap …
From Classroom Theory to Cutting-Edge Research: What I Learnt Studying Two AI Papers
Hello everyone! My name is Rizwan and I am a BS Computer Science student at FAST National University. In our Artificial Intelligence course with Dr. Bilal Jan, I was given an assignment to read recent research papers, analyze them, and write a blog connecting…
Stop Paying $0.10/Image for Product Photography APIs — Here's a 2¢ Alternative
If you're building an e-commerce tool, a Shopify app, or a marketplace integration in India, you've probably looked at background removal and product photo APIs. PhotoRoom charges $0.10/image. Remove.bg is $0.06–0.12/image at volume. For a seller with 1,000 S…
I Published a Python SDK for SEC Financial Data (and It's 6 Methods)
I recently posted about an API I built for SEC EDGAR data. While writing the example code for that article, I kept looking at all the boilerplate — setting headers, building URLs, parsing responses — and thought, this should just be a pip install. So I made o…
How Go's Standard Library Streamlines Small App Development by Minimizing Third-Party Dependencies
Understanding Go's Standard Library Philosophy Go’s standard library is—well, it’s kind of a statement, you know? Not just a toolkit, but a purposeful one. Unlike languages that treat their standard libraries as, like, minimal frameworks, Go packs a lot into …
31 Rust CLI Tools Built for AI Agents
I shipped 31 open-source Rust CLI tools in one project. Not 31 features in one tool - 31 separate crates, each doing exactly one thing, each installable on its own. That project is dee.ink, and building it changed how I think about the right interface for AI …
castkit: CLI Demo Videos From One Command
Every CLI tool I've ever shipped had the same problem: zero visual presence. Then I built castkit - a castkit CLI demo video generator that turns any binary into a polished MP4 or GIF with one command. No screen recording software. No manual scripting. No vid…
The 3-Month Gap: Building AI Agents That Actually Work
The 3-month gap between building an AI agent and it being useful nearly broke me. That's the stretch nobody posts about. I've seen a hundred Twitter threads about building agents. Maybe three honest ones about what happens after you ship v1 and start using th…
Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex: 4 Semanas Después
TL;DR 4 semanas después del lanzamiento simultáneo de Claude Opus 4.6 y GPT-5.3 Codex (Feb 5, 2026), tenemos datos reales de producción. Opus 4.6 domina en razonamiento sostenido (14.5h), codebases complejos (1M tokens), y SWE-bench (80.8%). Codex gana en vel…