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AI Coding Tools Productivity Paradox: 24% Faster Feel, 19% Slower Reality
Developers think AI coding tools make them 24% faster. A controlled study measured 19% slower. Here's what five studies found — and what to do about it.
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Spec-Driven Development: Build a Python CLI From Spec to Code
Build a complete Python CLI expense tracker using GitHub Spec Kit and Claude Code. Full walkthrough from requirements to working code in 30 minutes.
MoonDB: Add a Backend for Vibe Coding in 5 Minutes
Build a full backend with REST API, auth, file storage, and AI endpoints by sending one JSON schema to MoonDB — zero deploy, zero config, ready in 5 minutes.
Making LLMs Fast and Small: A Guide to Inference Optimization Research in 2026
THINC: How a 4B Model Beat 235B Qwen3 by Reasoning in Code
Chrome DevTools MCP: Give Your AI Coding Agent Browser Eyes
DeepSeek V4 Pro Review: 80% SWE-bench at 1/7th Claude's Price
DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $1.74/M input tokens — 7x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7. Real benchmarks, costs, and safety gaps.
Gemini CLI Tutorial: Setup, Configuration, and a Real Python Project
Set up Google's free Gemini CLI in 5 minutes, configure GEMINI.md, add MCP servers, and build a Python project — all on the 1,000 requests/day free tier.
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13 aprI'm Maksim. By day I lead an engineering team at inDrive. After hours I ship side projects (PageBloom, NotesPilot, MyDevKit, startgaze) and write things up here when I learn something worth keeping.
The blog itself runs on an agentic publishing pipeline I built and rebuilt — a slow-moving experiment in how much of a writer's workflow can be automated without losing the voice. It writes, fact-checks, and refreshes; I edit, decide, and publish.