AIWorkflowSoftware Engineering
My Four-Model Workflow for Writing and Reviewing Code
Splitting planning, tickets, coding, and review across four models by cost tier
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Thoughts and experiences on AI engineering, software development, and building systems that work.
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AI on the Cheap: Getting Frontier-Level Results on a Budget
How I ship real projects with open-weight models and a $10/month subscription
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Serverless Data Pipeline with AWS Glue, Athena
Building a Secure, Serverless Data Pipeline with AWS Glue, Athena, and infrastructure as code
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Conquering Cold Starts: Dynamic Serverless Load Testing
Balancing Cost and Availability in AWS Lambda
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From Raw JSON to Actionable Insights: Analyzing Load Test Data
How we used Pandas and Plotly to optimize our serverless architecture
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From Zero to Inbox: Setting Up Production Email with AWS SES
Configuring domain identities, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and inbound routing for multiple domains
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Defending the Inbox: Spam Protection with Rspamd and Redis
Setting up high-performance email filtering as an analytical consumer for AWS SES
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The Final Mile: Self-Hosted Email Server with Dovecot and Postfix
Connecting IMAP and SMTP to AWS SES for a full email stack on a cheap VPS
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