If you think AI cybersecurity is currently being handled by smart people with everything under control, I have news for you. Right now, a surreal scene from Ivan Krylov’s classic fable "The Swan, the Pike, and the Crayfish" is unfolding right before ...

If you follow AI safety, you know the uncomfortable truth: modern LLM guardrails are failing not because of complex zero-day exploits, but because of sloppy heuristics, brittle filters, and naive prompt-matching. We built AURA to be pragmatic: deter...

When I transitioned into software development through online courses, I was operating in a complete vacuum. With no tech professionals in my immediate circle, every obstacle felt magnified. In this article, I reflect on how different platform dynamic...

In the first part of this serieshttps://coderlegion.com/23258/why-titles-and-price-tags-dont-guarantee-quality-the-work-speaks-for-itself, I walked through the technical grit of rebuilding a musician's web platform from scratch—spending over 320 hour...

By Ecaterina Sevciuc | Creator of AURA AI User Risk Assessment Two months ago, I launched AURA — an open-source framework designed to model psychological manipulation, grey-zone threat vectors, and social engineering in Human-AI interactions. Yeste...

How We Rebuilt a Website for a Musician and Why Engineering Ownership Matters More Than Commercial Labels. In the tech market, people tend to judge a book by its cover: if a "design agency" takes on a project, clients are willing to pay big checks ...

As a banking and legal professional, there’s one harsh truth I learned early in my career: rules are rarely broken by brute force; they are bypassed through loopholes and human psychology. On my very first year of law school, practicing attorneys to...

We’ve all been there. You get a brilliant idea for a new project, prototype, or a mini-app. Your brain is buzzing with features, logical structures, and beautiful architecture. You open your IDE, ready to build something amazing... ...and then you s...

1. The Beginning: Magic in CodePen I was as far from development as one could be. A law degree, a career in banking, Excel, Word, 1C, CRM systems... I sincerely believed that developers were demigods, and reaching their level was like reaching for ...

Confession: I’m not a walking dictionary. If you test me on textbook IT definitions, I might fail. I used to think this was a weakness, but now I see it as my filter. We often treat terminology like a high-tech "smoke screen" for professional ego, bu...

Introduction It is hard to open a news feed today without encountering apocalyptic predictions: AI will take our jobs, AI is "hallucinating," and AI will finally destroy what's left of our privacy. This has evolved into a form of mass hysteria. How...