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Field notes on building for the web — shipping AI features, front-end architecture, performance, and the craft of making software people trust.

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AI
16 Jul 2026·16 min read

How to Build an AI SaaS Product with Next.js, Stripe, and OpenAI

Building an AI feature is the easy part — this is the full build most tutorials skip: Clerk auth, Stripe subscription billing, OpenAI usage tracking, rate limiting, and an architecture that survives real traffic, all in Next.js.

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AI
13 Jul 2026·14 min read

Building an AI Agent Backend with Python, FastAPI, and LangChain

Every serious AI job listing in 2026 wants Python — this is the full build: a FastAPI and LangChain agent backend with real tools and streaming SSE, bridged cleanly to the Next.js frontend from Article #4.

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Web Dev
09 Jul 2026·13 min read

Streaming AI Responses in Next.js with the Vercel AI SDK

Users stare at a blank screen for four seconds before your AI answers — streaming fixes that, and the Vercel AI SDK makes it almost free: useChat, streamText, streaming tool calls, structured objects, error handling, and production deployment on Vercel.

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LLMs
29 Jun 2026·11 min read

OpenAI Function Calling in 2026: A Complete Guide for Node.js Developers

Function calling is what turns an LLM from a text generator into something that actually does things. This is the complete Node.js + TypeScript guide — tool schemas, parallel calls, streaming, strict mode, tool_choice, and the production-grade error handling most tutorials skip.

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LLMs
15 Jun 2026·13 min read

Building a RAG Application with Next.js, OpenAI, and Pinecone — Step by Step

A complete, production-aware walkthrough of building a RAG application with Next.js App Router, OpenAI, and Pinecone — chunking, embeddings, vector search, streaming with the Vercel AI SDK, deployment, and the retrieval optimizations every tutorial skips.

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AI
08 Jun 2026·12 min read

How to Build an AI Agent with LangChain and OpenAI

A complete, production-minded walkthrough of building an AI agent with LangChain and OpenAI in TypeScript — tools, memory, the agent loop, error handling, deployment, and the things every tutorial leaves out.

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LLMs
05 Dec 2025·7 min read

Prompt Engineering for Developers: Practical Patterns

Prompt engineering is not magic incantations. For developers it is interface design — clear contracts, worked examples, and treating prompts like code you can test.

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Web Dev
12 Nov 2025·8 min read

React Server Components in Next.js: Simple Guide

React Server Components split your tree across the network. Once you see where the server/client boundary sits, the whole model — and when to reach for "use client" — clicks into place.

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JavaScript
08 Oct 2025·7 min read

TypeScript Patterns for Safer JavaScript Apps

The best TypeScript is not the cleverest. It is the code where wrong states will not compile — using the type system as a design tool, not a chore you satisfy after the fact.

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AI
18 Sep 2025·7 min read

Trustworthy AI Features: Product Engineering Guide

A model that is right 90% of the time can still feel broken if the other 10% shows up at the wrong moment. Trust is a product problem, not a model problem.

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Performance
22 Jun 2025·9 min read

Web Performance Guide: Core Web Vitals for Engineers

Performance is a feature you can measure, and most of the wins are unglamorous. Ship less, ship it later, and stop blocking the main thread.

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Web Dev
05 May 2025·8 min read

Design Systems That Scale: Tokens, Components, Teams

A design system is not a component library. It is an agreement — and agreements break the moment they stop being convenient to keep.

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