
AI-Assisted Development Is Not About Writing Code Faster
Everyone's measuring AI by lines-per-minute. The real leverage is in architecture, debugging, and the work nobody wants to do.
Critical analysis of trends, frameworks, and industry narratives in modern web development.
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Everyone's measuring AI by lines-per-minute. The real leverage is in architecture, debugging, and the work nobody wants to do.

You escaped WordPress. Then you locked yourself into Contentful. Here's when a headless CMS actually makes sense — and when markdown is all you need.

The App Router shipped with promises of simpler data fetching, better performance, and a cleaner mental model. Two years of production projects later — here's the honest verdict.

A perfect 100 in Lighthouse means your test environment is fast. It says almost nothing about whether real users on real networks are having a fast experience.

The mental model most developers have for static sites is ten years out of date. Here's what they actually are now.

The two most popular ways to build small business websites are both optimizing for the wrong thing.

How the most successful CMS in history became one of the web’s most exhausting platforms to maintain.