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I Tested Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini on the Same Refactoring Task

Apr 16 · 7 min read · I gave Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini the exact same refactoring task — extract a 400-line god service into Clean Architecture layers. Same codebase, same prompt, same TypeScript project. The results weren't even close. This isn't a synthetic benchmark. I...

How to Structure a TypeScript Project So AI Agents Can Navigate It

Apr 5 · 8 min read · Your AI coding assistant is only as good as the codebase it navigates. I've watched Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot struggle with the same project structures that trip up junior developers — and exce

AI Didn't Replace the Architecture Decisions — It Eliminated the Tax

Mar 26 · 10 min read · Last month I refactored a legacy NestJS service layer — 47 files, 15,000 lines of code tangled with circular dependencies, god services, and business logic buried inside controllers. The old me would

5 Custom Hooks I Copy to Every React Project

Mar 18 · 8 min read · Every time I start a new React project, I copy the same 5 hooks. Not from a library — from my own collection, battle-tested across 15+ production apps. These aren't clever abstractions. They're boring

How We Migrated 200K Lines from JS to Strict TypeScript

Mar 18 · 8 min read · We didn't mass-rename .js files to .ts and call it a day. We migrated 200,000 lines of production JavaScript to strict TypeScript — with zero downtime, over 4 months, while shipping features every spr