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If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

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Shareable blog post edition: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2026/06/andys-laws-of-ai-in-software-engineering.html Law #1: "The more Software Developers use AI, the more valuable Software Engineers who do not use AI become." Software Engineers who are masters at delivering Software without using AI will actually have increased job security the more Software Developers in the worldwide Software Development community rely on AI to deliver Software without having true mastery over Software Engineering. As more Software Developers become fully dependent on AI to build Software without truly understanding how AI gets work done, Software Engineers who do understand what is going on under the hood will dwindle and become more valuable than ever. In other words, they will have a competitive advantage over Software Developers who can only deliver Software features with AI as well as Software Developers who have not mastered Software Engineering. Also, there will always be a need for Software Engineers who can maintain the Software of AI itself. Law #2: "Software Developers benefit from AI in direct proportion to how weak they are in Software Engineering" The weaker Software Developers are at Software Engineering the more they benefit from AI. After all, AI learns from Master Software Engineers and then applies its learnings in code generation done for lower-level Software Developers who lack mastery in Software Engineering. So, users of AI simply place themselves lower in the expertise hierarchy to be on the receiving end of what Master Software Engineers feed AI with their code. This explains why many experts like Linus Torvalds do not find AI very useful while devs who have zero degrees and qualifications feel like they get a lot from AI. A beneficial thing to learn from this law is that it is more valuable for a Software Developer to hone in their Software Engineering skills (including the completion of university degrees) than to hone in their AI usage skills because if t

SQL is arguably the most widely used language in software engineering, yet it is often the least carefully written. Most teams enforce strict linting on their application code but leave SQL queries as a free-for-all. This guide covers the formatting rules that separate maintainable, team-friendly SQL from query spaghetti that haunts on-call rotations. Why Poorly Written SQL Is a Real Engineering Problem Unformatted SQL is not just an aesthetic issue - it is a correctness risk. Dense, run-on queries make it nearly impossible to spot accidental Cartesian products, missing GROUP BY clauses, or WHERE conditions that silently bypass indexes. By the time a performance problem surfaces in production, tracing it back to the root cause becomes a painful exercise in reading someone else's stream of consciousness. Rule 1: Keyword Capitalization SQL engines treat select and SELECT identically, but human readers do not. Always uppercase reserved keywords such as SELECT, FROM, WHERE, JOIN, GROUP BY, and ORDER BY. Keep table names, column names, and aliases lowercase. This single habit immediately creates a visual boundary between the logic structure of the query and the underlying data it operates on. Rule 2: Indentation and Clause Alignment Think of SQL clauses as layers in a data pipeline. Each major clause - SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY - should start at the left margin. Columns and filter conditions beneath them should be indented by 4 spaces (or 1 tab, as long as your team is consistent). This structure lets any reviewer skim the query top-to-bottom and understand the data flow at a glance. Rule 3: Trailing vs. Leading Commas This is a genuinely debated topic on data teams. Leading commas (placing the comma at the start of each new line) make version control diffs significantly cleaner when columns are added or removed. Trailing commas look more natural for developers coming from JavaScript or Python. Neither approach is wrong - what is wrong is mixing both styles

When you expose inventory or checkout endpoints to public-facing front-ends or third-party webhooks, safeguarding those APIs from brute-force scripts, scraping bots, and inventory hoarding algorithms becomes a critical requirement. Without defensive rate limiting, a single coordinated script can easily overwhelm your database connections. The Problem with Simple Counter Resets A common mistake when setting up basic API protection is using a rigid "Fixed Window" counter (e.g., allowing 100 requests per minute, resetting exactly at the turn of the clock). This creates a massive flaw where a developer can flood your server with 100 requests at 11:59:59 and another 100 requests at 12:00:01, effectively doubling your acceptable burst traffic and causing severe performance dips. To handle uneven burst traffic safely without crashing your database, the standard approach is implementing a token bucket algorithm. The Token Bucket Pattern The token bucket algorithm maintains a centralized bucket that holds a maximum capacity of tokens. Tokens are added back to the bucket at a constant, predictable rate over time. Each incoming API request consumes exactly one token. If the bucket is completely empty, the request is instantly rejected with a 429 Too Many Requests status code, protecting your core server threads. javascript // Quick Redis-based token bucket rate limiter concept async function isRateLimited(userId) { const key = `rate:${userId}`; const now = Date.now(); // Use a Redis multi-exec transaction to atomically check and update tokens const [tokens, lastRefill] = await redis.hmget(key, 'tokens', 'lastRefill'); // Calculate token replenishment based on time elapsed... // Return true if tokens <= 0, otherwise decrement tokens and update timestamp }

Exactly one year ago, my terminal was a blank slate. I started where almost everyone does , wrestling with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, trying to understand the web pixel by pixel. What began as curiosity quickly turned into a full obsession. I went from building simple static pages to diving deep into full-stack development. Here’s what that intense first year of constant building, breaking things, and shipping real projects has looked like. The Leap into Modern Frameworks Once vanilla JavaScript started feeling limiting, I jumped into React . Component-based thinking completely changed how I approached interfaces. Then came Next.js — it bridged client-side beauty with server-side power and pushed me into a true full-stack mindset. The Ultimate Test: Lynvista Safaris The biggest challenge was building lynvistasafaris.com , a live travel booking platform for a real client. This project forced me far beyond tutorials and into real engineering problems. I had to implement: Payment infrastructure from scratch with Daraja API (M-Pesa STK pushes) and Paystack for international transactions. A robust database layer using Drizzle ORM + MySQL. Custom business logic , including a multi-currency pricing system with special validation rules for currencies like GBP. It was messy , many late nights debugging webhooks, schema mismatches, and edge cases , but shipping it taught me more than any course ever could. What One Year Taught Me Syntax is just a tool. The real skill is learning how to break down complex problems, debug effectively, and keep iterating even when things break in production. I’m incredibly proud of the progress I’ve made in 365 days (402 contributions later), but I know I’m still at the very beginning. For the next phase, I’m focused on shipping more projects, writing about the crazy bugs I encounter, and deepening my architectural and full-stack skills. If you want to see what I’m building right now, check out my GitHub .

In Q1 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic moved enterprise customers from flat-rate plans to token-based billing. The change looks administrative, but it had a direct consequence for engineering teams: the real cost of AI became visible for the first time. The market's reaction over the following two months was enough to reopen a question many considered settled: does AI actually deliver measurable ROI? What happened when the bill arrived The most documented case is Uber. The company had encouraged all employees to use agentic tools as much as possible and even ranked AI usage internally on leaderboards. The result: the entire annual budget was consumed in four months. The response was a $1,500/month cap per employee per agentic coding tool (Claude Code, Cursor, and similar). At Brex, engineers were limited to $500/week in tokens; employees outside engineering received a $5/week cap. T-Mobile temporarily capped usage at $2,000/month per user with plans to migrate to a tiered system. One unnamed company, according to Ed Zitron in "AI Is Slowing Down" (June 2026), spent $500 million on Anthropic models in a single month due to absent spend controls. These are not isolated cases. A KPMG survey reported by the Wall Street Journal in June 2026 found that only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs; 50% have partial visibility; and 22% only find out what they owe after the bill arrives. Steve Chase, KPMG's global head of AI, told the Journal: "It's a new resource that needs to be managed that didn't exist quite that way, and we're seeing exponential growth." The structural problem behind the spending caps The spending caps are a symptom. The root cause, as Zitron details in the same article, is that the economics of generative AI require numbers that currently seem out of reach. Anthropics has made over $330 billion in compute commitments with Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, plus another $45 billion with CoreWeave and SpaceX. To cover those commitments, it nee

« Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. » — Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales , Lettre XVI (1656) "I have made this one longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter." Pascal's joke is the whole problem: the short version is the expensive one. LLMs lean the other way, they pad. So the question is whether a model can rein in its own verbosity, and what the trimming costs when the deciding clause is buried: "…shall not disclose, except to affiliates who…" Drop the "except," and the answer flips. The test We use ContractNLI: real NDAs, each with expert Entailment / Contradiction / NotMentioned labels. The clauses that decide a label, the buried "negation-by-exception" conditions, we tag as traps . The metric is decision-survival , and it's judge-free: answer from the full document (the ceiling), compress, answer again, score by exact match against the expert label. Survival is the fraction of full-document-correct answers that stay correct after compression. Compression is blind to the question and computed once per document. Three compressors on Groq ( llama-3.1-8b , qwen3-32b , gpt-oss-120b ), one fixed reader ( llama-3.3-70b ), 400 items across 61 NDAs, two prompts: naive ("Summarise this") and effortful (a careful lossless instruction). The raw ceiling is 66%, but 87% on traps, an artifact of the label mix, which is exactly why we report survival rather than accuracy. Finding 1: Prompt engineering is still alive Decision-survival on trap clauses: Compressor naive effortful llama-3.1-8b 57% 74% qwen3-32b 88% 93% gpt-oss-120b 91% 95% The weak model jumps +16 points on traps; the capable ones improve slightly. The payoff from a better prompt is largest exactly where capacity is scarce. Finding 2: The traps catch out simpler models Decision-survival on ordinary (non-trap) clauses: Compressor naive effortful llama-3.1-8b 87% 87% qwen3-32b 88% 94% gpt-oss-120b 94% 91% The small model isn't

73 cryptographically signed npm packages from Microsoft were compromised last week with advanced credential-stealing malware that fires the moment a developer opens one in an AI coding agent. Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code — all trigger it. It's the second supply-chain attack in two months against the same Microsoft account. "The genius of this Miasma worm lies in how it adhered to legitimate workflows. It does not exploit any software vulnerability in GitHub or npm. Instead, it exploits the underlying trust model of the modern engineering ecosystem." — Cloudsmith What actually changed 73 official Microsoft npm packages were poisoned with the Miasma worm — a clone of TeamPCP's open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud toolkit Malware executes automatically when any of the 73 packages are opened inside an AI coding agent The payload (28 KB) harvests credentials from AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, 90+ dev tool configs, and password managers , then spreads laterally through cloud infrastructure Attack vector: stolen Microsoft publisher credentials → bypasses the build pipeline entirely → malicious build published with valid SLSA provenance attestation Each infection gets a uniquely encrypted payload — meaning hash-based IOCs are useless for detection GitHub initially flagged packages as "terms of service violations" rather than malware; Microsoft only acknowledged possible malicious content 48 hours later The same Microsoft account was compromised in May 2026 (durabletask Python SDK on PyPI, 400k downloads/month) — and apparently wasn't fully remediated Why this one stings The supply-chain attack playbook has levelled up. SLSA provenance — the framework designed to give you cryptographic confidence that a package came from a legitimate build — was used against you here. Attackers stole a legitimate Microsoft OIDC token, published a malicious build with real provenance, and conventional scanners waved it through as a routine trusted update. The AI agent angle makes it worse.

You asked Claude Code to add pagination to your order history endpoint. It generated a clean function — listOrdersByUser() — using a DynamoDB Scan with a Limit parameter. It compiled. Tests passed. You shipped it. Three days later your AWS bill had a line item you didn't recognize: 47 million read capacity units consumed in 72 hours. The Orders table has 50M rows. Scan reads every one of them regardless of Limit — Limit only controls how many results come back, not how many items DynamoDB reads. Claude Code didn't know your table had 50M rows. It didn't know you had a GSI on userId . It guessed, and the guess was expensive. infrawise · npm What AI Assistants Don't Know About Your Infrastructure AI coding assistants read your source files. They understand function signatures, TypeScript types, and import chains. What they cannot see is the infrastructure those functions run against. When Claude Code looks at a file that calls dynamoClient.scan({ TableName: "Orders" }) , it has no idea that: The Orders table has 50M items There is already a GSI named userId-index on the userId attribute Three other functions are already using Query against that same GSI The Sessions table is accessed by 6 separate code paths, making it a hot partition candidate Without that context, the assistant fills the gap with generic patterns. It recommends Scan because it has no reason not to. It suggests adding a GSI on status because it doesn't know one exists. It writes SELECT * because it has no idea which columns are expensive to pull. This isn't a bug in the model. It's a missing input. The model was never given your infrastructure. What Happens When infrawise Is in the Loop infrawise statically analyzes your codebase, your DynamoDB tables, and your PostgreSQL schemas, then exposes that context to your editor through MCP. Claude Code gets 15 tools that answer questions like: which tables exist, what are their partition keys and sort keys, which GSIs are already defined, which functions ar

Why I built this Every time I started a new Java full stack project I was spending 2-3 days just on setup — JWT configuration, Spring Security, CORS, connecting Angular to backend. So I decided to build a reusable starter kit once and never do that setup again. What I built A complete full stack starter kit with: Spring Boot 3.5 REST API Angular 19 frontend connected to backend MySQL database with User table ready JWT Authentication working out of the box Spring Security configured Full CRUD operations Clean layered architecture (Controller → Service → Repository) The Tech Stack Backend: Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Security, JWT, JPA Frontend: Angular 19, TypeScript Database: MySQL How it works User registers via POST /api/users User logs in via POST /api/auth/login Backend returns JWT token Frontend stores token in localStorage All protected routes require valid token Invalid or missing token returns 401 Unauthorized What I learned JWT configuration in Spring Security is confusing at first CORS needs to be configured in SecurityConfig not just main class Angular HttpClient needs provideHttpClient() in app.config.ts Service layer keeps code clean and testable GitHub Full source code is available here: https://github.com/shindebuilds/springboot-angular-starter-kit Feel free to clone it, use it, improve it. If you want the packaged version with setup instructions: https://hanumant4.gumroad.com/l/caopgu Happy building!

Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its longstanding Siri assistant, which like most other announcements had a hefty helping of AI.

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Apple has announced the latest version of macOS. It’s all about the reintroduction of Siri, which is now accessible from anywhere on the Mac desktop.

It took a few years, but Apple finally made its AI look useful. Now millions of iPhone users in Europe are being told they won't be getting Siri AI anytime soon, if ever - and Apple wants them to blame the EU. Apple says its new AI-powered Siri will not launch on iPhones and iPads […]

Apple took the wraps off iOS 27 at its WWDC event, and the iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

Anthropic just announced Claude Fable 5, a new AI model it said is the most powerful model it has ever made widely available. According to the company, Fable 5 "shows exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work, and vision," with its lead over other models growing as tasks become longer and more complex. Fable 5 […]

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

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