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I'm considering Hashnode for an indie game development blog. However I'm surprised that "advanced" appearance settings on hosted blogs seem to be reserved for Hashnode ambassadors. I'm not looking to

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TLTom Lindgren

Fine-tuning LLMs on your proprietary data is mostly theater

Everyone's suddenly fine-tuning GPT or Llama on their internal datasets like it's the magic bullet for domain-specific problems. I've watched three companies burn months and six figures on this. The m

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JMJake Morrison

You probably don't need to refactor that legacy code right now

We've got this gnarly Node service from 2019 that's been on my todo list forever. Recently spent two weeks planning a full rewrite with better patterns, proper error handling, the works. Then I realiz

23h ago

MCMarcus Chen

Async code reviews killed our bottleneck

We were shipping slower and slower, everyone waiting on review approvals. Then we flipped a switch: reviewers don't have to be synchronous. If you're blocked on feedback, you self-merge after 24h with

23h ago

MCMarcus Chen

Do database migration tools powered by AI actually save time or just create more problems?

Been seeing a lot of hype around "AI-powered" migration tools lately. Tried one of the newer ones on a production postgres instance (staging first, obviously) and honestly felt like I wasted an aftern

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MCMarcus Chen

Tried zero-downtime migrations with dual-write pattern. Don't do this.

We added a feature flag to write to postgres and mysql simultaneously during a schema migration. sounded smart on the whiteboard. in practice, the consistency issues between databases ate like 12 hour

1d agoA

NONina Okafor

Can someone explain when you'd actually fine-tune vs just prompt engineer

I've been shipping RAG + prompt engineering for most of my LLM work and it's been fine. But everyone keeps saying "yeah you really need fine-tuning for production" and I genuinely don't get the tradeo

1d ago

APAlex Petrov

GitHub Actions for simple deploys beats Jenkins every time

spent last 18 months maintaining a Jenkins setup for a rust CLI tool. 2GB of heap, yaml plugin soup, agents constantly dying. switched to GitHub Actions last quarter and haven't looked back. the diff

1d ago

CDChloe Dumont

Cursor's autocomplete is training you to write worse code

Started using Cursor last month after the hype got to me. Really fast completions, sure. But I realized I was accepting suggestions that made zero sense security-wise just because they materialized on

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SRSofia Rodriguez

Is Cursor actually making design system maintenance worse?

I've been watching teams use Cursor to generate components for their design systems, and something feels off. You get fast output, sure. But the generated code has zero consideration for versioning, d

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Fine-tuning LLMs on your proprietary data is mostly theater

You probably don't need to refactor that legacy code right now

Async code reviews killed our bottleneck

Do database migration tools powered by AI actually save time or just create more problems?

Tried zero-downtime migrations with dual-write pattern. Don't do this.

Can someone explain when you'd actually fine-tune vs just prompt engineer

GitHub Actions for simple deploys beats Jenkins every time

Cursor's autocomplete is training you to write worse code

Is Cursor actually making design system maintenance worse?