#Best Practices

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Programming•Feb 21, 2026•13 min read

Tests Are the Memory AI Doesn't Have

AI coding assistants forget context between sessions, reintroduce fixed bugs, and make baffling 'improvements.' Tests are the guardrail that survives the amnesia. Here's what I learned building a real project with Claude Code — and what Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and the data say about testing in the age of AI.

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AI & Data•Feb 06, 2026•14 min read

RAG Is Easy to Build, Hard to Get Right: Pain Points Every Practitioner Hits

A practitioner's guide to the real-world pain points of Retrieval-Augmented Generation — from chunking disasters and hallucinating citations to multilingual headaches — and the battle-tested solutions that actually work.

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Programming•Jan 30, 2026•9 min read

The Pragmatic Guide to AI-Assisted Coding: When to Trust, When to Supervise

A framework for using AI coding assistants in production software—synthesizing perspectives from Karpathy, Beck, Fowler, and others on where human oversight remains essential.

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AI & Data•Jan 29, 2025•13 min read

Open-Source LLMs: A starter guide

This comprehensive guide explores open-source LLMs, covering their core components, evaluation methodologies, best practices for implementation, and critical training data considerations. It also compares LLM open-source ecosystems with traditional open-source models while addressing potential risks and mitigation strategies.

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