Everyone loves to talk about new frameworks. Almost nobody wants to talk about what most senior Angular devs actually live in every day: a 6+ year old enterprise app, one Angular “app” that’s actually 40 products, 20+ minute build times on ...

Somewhere in the last few years, “being a developer” quietly turned into “being a content creator with VS Code open in the background.” You’re told to: post daily on X, share screenshots on LinkedIn, thread your way to a “personal brand,” ...

Nothing exposes developer anxiety like the words “state management” in an Angular enterprise project. You have: Signals, SignalState, SignalStore, classic NgRx Store, NGXS, custom services as “mini-stores.” And then you have a ...

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...

Ask most AI coding tools to “build me a web app” and watch what happens. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get: React, Next.js, Tailwind, maybe a sprinkle of popular auth and UI libraries. No context. No questions about your team. No...

Watching some people “use AI at work” has convinced me of one thing: AI is not replacing competent developers any time soon. But it is doing a fantastic job of exposing who didn’t really know what they were doing in the first place. You’ve probabl...

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...

The future of engineering was supposed to look like this: AI handles the boring stuff. Humans focus on architecture, hard problems, and product. What it often looks like instead: juniors and some seniors blasting Claude or other LLMs with vag...

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...

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...

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...

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...