AI

Everyone’s adding AI to everything right now. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT for code reviews, AI-powered testing tools – the pressure to adopt is intense. I get it. I’ve been through similar waves with microservices, NoSQL, and containerization. But here’s what I’ve learned: the shiny new tool often comes with costs that don’t show up in the demo. The Infrastructure Tax You Don’t See Coming Last month, I helped a startup debug their “AI-enhanced” development workflow. Their build times had tripled. Why? Every pull request triggered three different AI tools: code analysis, test generation, and documentation updates. ...

Vector Search in Elasticsearch: Building Production-Ready AI-Powered Search That Actually Scales After our Elasticsearch bill hit $3,000/month for basic vector search, I learned these optimization tricks that cut costs by 85% while improving relevance. Three months ago, our team jumped on the AI bandwagon and replaced our traditional search with “semantic search powered by vectors.” The demo looked amazing. Production was a disaster. Our Elasticsearch cluster was constantly under memory pressure, queries took 2+ seconds, and our AWS bill exploded. ...

Welcome to Future Tech Stack We’re living through the most transformative period in software development history. AI code assistants like Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor are reshaping how we write code. React Server Components are revolutionizing web architecture. WebAssembly is bringing near-native performance to browsers. Serverless computing is making infrastructure invisible. But here’s the question that keeps me up at night: What will the future tech stack actually look like? ...

Building Your Own AI Code Review Pipeline: How I Automated PR Reviews with Claude API and GitHub Actions After spending 2 hours daily reviewing PRs, I built an AI pipeline that catches 80% of issues before human review. Last week alone, it caught 12 security issues, 8 performance problems, and 23 accessibility violations before they hit production. Here’s exactly how to build your own for less than $10/month. The Breaking Point Three months ago, our team hit a wall. With 15-20 PRs daily and only 2 senior developers, code reviews became our biggest bottleneck. Junior developers waited 2-3 days for feedback. Critical bugs slipped through. I was spending more time reviewing code than writing it. ...

AI Code Editors Showdown: Cursor vs Windsurf vs GitHub Copilot - Which One Will 10x Your Productivity? The year is 2025, and if you’re still coding without an AI assistant, you’re essentially bringing a knife to a gunfight. But with Cursor hitting $25M ARR, Windsurf exploding to 40,000 weekly active developers in just 30 days, and GitHub Copilot powering millions of developers worldwide - which AI code editor should you actually use? ...