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Swap hype for practical lessons on AI and software architecture to help you build products that people will actually use. Click to read Pragmatic Builder, by Milos Solujic, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
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Faster Horses
A few weeks ago I sat with a team responsible for maintaining and modernizing a core monolith, the kind of system a fintech business actually runs on. They had a mandate from above: make a meaningful impact on product delivery with modern agentic workflow
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The machine can't be held accountable. You still can.
Why I believe this story is true And there are most likely many more like this in the wild. This story is worth sitting with, because it's not a failure of AI tooling. The tools worked exactly as designed. It's a failure of cognitive posture, and it's bec
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10x Output Without the 10x Cognitive Debt
The software industry is obsessed with top-line numbers right now. We hear things like "3/4 of all code at Google is now written by AI," and everyone immediately jumps to a flawed conclusion: Software engineering is becoming a pure game of prompting.That
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And just like that… the age of subsidized AI coding tools is ending
And just like that, the honeymoon seems to be over, and the money started flying - except this time, it's yours.I've been writing software professionally for over twenty years. I've watched the dot-com bubble inflate and burst, the mobile revolution, the
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