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James Anderson

Software developer passionate about building modern web and SaaS applications. I enjoy working with .NET, exploring AI tools, and turning ideas into practical products.

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Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

The courier problem of manual tab-hopping
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Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

#ai #productivity #llm #webdev
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The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG

Shows why 73% of RAG failures happen upstream
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The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG

#ai #llm #rag #webdev
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7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)

Readers confess painful over-engineering realities
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7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)

#ai #llm #webdev #programming
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Inside the Tokenizer: Why the Same Prompt Costs Different Amounts on Every Model
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Inside the Tokenizer: Why the Same Prompt Costs Different Amounts on Every Model

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev
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How I Stopped Burning Out as a Developer
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How I Stopped Burning Out as a Developer

#career #productivity #mentalhealth #webdev
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9 Ways Your AI Agent Silently Fails (and How to Catch Each)

Tackling stealthy gray failures
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9 Ways Your AI Agent Silently Fails (and How to Catch Each)

#ai #agents #llm #webdev
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Prompt Fluency Is the New Literacy — and Most Devs Are Winging It
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Prompt Fluency Is the New Literacy — and Most Devs Are Winging It

#ai #productivity #career #llm
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How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed
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How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev
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Why LLMs Are Bad at Math, Explained Simply
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Why LLMs Are Bad at Math, Explained Simply

#discuss #ai #llm #machinelearning
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Why LLMs Hallucinate, Explained Simply — and How to Actually Stop It
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Why LLMs Hallucinate, Explained Simply — and How to Actually Stop It

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev
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Prompt Caching, Explained: How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 70-90% (With Real Math)
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Prompt Caching, Explained: How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 70-90% (With Real Math)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev
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A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself
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A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself

#flutter #ai #claude #designsystem
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How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood
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How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood

#coding #computerscience #software #softwareengineering
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How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading)
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How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading)

#ai #programming #software #career
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