<![CDATA[Stories by The AI Guy on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@the-ai?source=rss-fc969b29735b------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*W51jLj7-45ymii0yR-eI8Q.png Stories by The AI Guy on Medium https://medium.com/@the-ai?source=rss-fc969b29735b------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:56:17 GMT <![CDATA[So AI is making me lazy.]]>

Not in the way the thinkpieces mean.

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xUnit 4.0.0 makes full test-case parallelization an explicit option. That is useful, but xUnit 4 ParallelMode.All changes a quiet…

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Every couple of weeks I need a twenty-line program. Find what’s bloating a build agent’s disk, dedupe a CSV, hash-check a folder. For…

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Ship smaller, safer changes reviewers can trust at a glance.

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Your cache hit rate can be 99% and your database can still fall over. I got reminded of this during a load test recently: the dashboard…

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I Nodded Like a Bobblehead in Engineering Meetings for 14 Months

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The mental model that turned me from mid-level to Staff Engineer

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Meetings, tech debt, side projects, tools… and how to say it without guilt

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Confession: I’ve started Rust four different times. Each time I lasted about nine days before ghosting the entire language like it was an…

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Hint: It has nothing to do with how clean their code is.

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