umesh-malik.hashnode.devThe $300K Bug That Was Never the AI's Fault — Inside Addy Osmani's Spec Framework That Changes EverythingA senior engineer types into Claude Code: "Build me a user authentication system." The AI agent generates 2,000 lines of code. Tests pass. The code gets merged to production. Three weeks later, user data leaks. The password hashing was plain text. Ra...1d ago·20 min read
umesh-malik.hashnode.devNode.js Just Cut Its Memory in Half — One Docker Line, Zero Code Changes, $300K SavedSomewhere in AWS us-west-2, a Node.js cluster is running. Six replica pods. 2 GB memory per pod. Half of that memory is pointers — 64-bit addresses pointing to other objects, arrays, closures, and strings. Not your data. Not your business logic. Just...4d ago·18 min read
umesh-malik.hashnode.devAGENTS.md Files Don't Work the Way You Think — A 138-Repo Study Proves ItSomewhere right now, a developer is carefully crafting an AGENTS.md file for their repository. They are writing detailed instructions about code style, architecture decisions, build commands, and testing strategies. They believe this will make AI cod...5d ago·13 min read
umesh-malik.hashnode.devThe $166/Year Developer Who Runs Circles Around Your $200K Kubernetes ClusterIn a data center somewhere, a Kubernetes cluster is idling at 87% unused CPU capacity. The company pays $15,000 a month for the infrastructure. The DevOps team consists of five engineers. Annual cost: north of $950,000. Meanwhile, on two $83/year VPS...5d ago·22 min read
umesh-malik.hashnode.devThe Two-Line Prompt That Broke Hollywood: Inside the Seedance 2.0 CatastropheA 15-second video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt shouldn't exist. It was never filmed. The actors never met on set. Yet millions watched it unfold on social media this week — and Hollywood is in full-blown panic mode. On February 11, 2026, Oscar-no...6d ago·13 min read