A few years ago, a simple CRUD app, a marketing site, or an internal dashboard could easily justify a $5,000+ freelance invoice. Scoping, architecture, implementation, testing, iteration—it took weeks. Clients accepted that. Now? You open Claude...

For most of my career, I treated my tech stack like a progress bar. More Angular. More RxJS. More Nx. More Supabase. More AI tools. If I just kept adding skills, the ceiling would move up automatically. I kept upgrading my stack and my career ...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

At some point over the last few years, TypeScript stopped being a tool and started becoming a performance art. We went from: “Let’s add types so we catch bugs earlier” to: “Behold my 80-line conditional type that nobody understands, including me....

At some point over the last few years, TypeScript stopped being a tool and started becoming a performance art. We went from: “Let’s add types so we catch bugs earlier” to: “Behold my 80-line conditional type that nobody understands, including me....

At some point over the last few years, TypeScript stopped being a tool and started becoming a performance art. We went from: “Let’s add types so we catch bugs earlier” to: “Behold my 80-line conditional type that nobody understands, including me....

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

For most of my career, I treated my tech stack like a progress bar. More Angular. More RxJS. More Nx. More Supabase. More AI tools. If I just kept adding skills, the ceiling would move up automatically. I kept upgrading my stack and my career ...

For most of my career, I treated my tech stack like a progress bar. More Angular. More RxJS. More Nx. More Supabase. More AI tools. If I just kept adding skills, the ceiling would move up automatically. I kept upgrading my stack and my career ...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

I spent an entire weekend building a “small” take‑home assignment. Friday to Monday. Stock data app. Real‑time updates. Angular, WebSockets, Supabase mock. On Monday, I submitted the repo. On Tuesday, I got the rejection. No call. No detailed...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...

Last week, I opened a blank file and froze. Not because I didn’t know how to solve the problem — but because my hands automatically reached for the AI sidebar. Somewhere along the way, “thinking” quietly turned into “prompting”, and I didn’t no...