Litestar DTOs: The 'Advanced Feature' I Didn't Need (And When You Might)
I thought I was doing it wrong by not using DTOs. Turns out, sometimes the simple approach is exactly right—here's how to know which to choose
9 minute read
Categories
33 pages
Technology
From Pydantic to msgspec: A Migration Story About Validation and Control
What I learned moving from FastAPI to Litestar—and discovering that validation doesn't have to be magic to be powerful
6 minute read
Stop Letting AI Rewrite Your Entire Codebase (And Start Coding Again)
How I went from burning $400/month on AI chaos to actually shipping quality code with LLMs as my assistant, not my replacement
10 minute read
The Second Wave Revolution: Why AI Follows Electricity, Not Internet Patterns
Everyone compares AI to the dot-com bubble—but they're wrong. AI is a second wave revolution like electricity after railways, driven by giants with fortress balance sheets, not desperate startups. This changes everything about how the bubble unfolds.
21 minute read
Predictable Agent Trajectories: Agent Trajectories as Retrievable Context
How to stop AI agents from veering off course by giving them a memory of successful strategies - no retraining required
12 minute read
The Art of Being Useless
When AI replaced his coding job, Jack Thompson discovered that his greatest failure was actually his path to authentic success. A story about choosing meaning over money and building technology that serves human creativity.
30 minute read
LangExtract: Demystifying Text Anchoring: How LLMs Quote Precisely
Ever wondered how tools like LangExtract can highlight the exact location of a quote in a document? Spoiler: It's not magic—it's clever computer science.
9 minute read
Deep Dive into Real-Time Frameworks: From REST to CRDTs
Building a collaborative AI whiteboard taught us everything about real-time communication - from basic polling to sophisticated conflict-free data structures. Here's the complete journey.
37 minute read
Python's Runtime Identity Crisis: A Guide to Knowing What Type You're Holding
Ever felt betrayed when your Python type hints vanish at runtime? This is the story of how to uncover the real types inside your Pydantic generics and typing constructs, with a battle-tested strategy that actually works.
5 minute read
The 12-Factor App: Building Software Like LEGO in the Cloud Era
Ever wondered why some apps scale effortlessly while others crumble? Discover the 12-factor methodology—the blueprint that transforms applications into infinitely scalable, platform-agnostic building blocks.
10 minute read