AI & Prompt Engineering
Using AI tools as a developer: prompt engineering, code assistants, and where they genuinely help versus where they do not.
AI & Prompt Engineering4 min readEvery WebMCP Tutorial Shows the Wrong Object. The Spec Says document
WebMCP lets a page expose tools to browser agents. It is a Draft Community Group Report, not a standard, and the API already moved.
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AI & Prompt Engineering5 min readScaled Content Abuse: Google Bans Purpose, Not the Tool
The scaled content abuse policy names purpose and volume, not the tool. What the wording prohibits, and the test that settles it.
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AI & Prompt Engineering9 min readHybrid Search: Why Vector Retrieval Alone Keeps Missing Your Documents
Hybrid search fixes what embeddings cannot do: exact IDs, rare terms, negation. How Reciprocal Rank Fusion merges the two ranked lists.
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AI & Prompt Engineering9 min readVector Search Is Approximate. Add a Filter and It Gets Worse
Vector search returns approximate neighbours, not nearest ones. Why a WHERE clause quietly drops most of your results, and how to fix it.
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Why LLMs Have Context Windows at All
A context window is not a storage limit. It comes from attention costing quadratic compute and position encodings.
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- AI & Prompt Engineering7 min read
AI Coding Agents Are Rewriting the Developer Workflow
AI coding agents go beyond autocomplete. The prompting patterns, guardrails and metrics that make agent workflows reliable.
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- AI & Prompt Engineering3 min read
AI Coding Assistants: Where They Help and How to Review Their Output
What AI coding tools are genuinely good at, the failure modes to expect, and a checklist for reviewing the code they generate.
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- AI & Prompt Engineering3 min read
LLM Context Windows: What They Are and Why Bigger Is Not Always Better
How context windows work, what tokens cost, the lost-in-the-middle effect, and how to fit a real codebase into one.
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- AI & Prompt Engineering3 min read
The Programming Fundamentals That Still Matter
Which CS fundamentals pay off in application work — complexity, data structures, concurrency, naming — and which do not.
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- AI & Prompt Engineering4 min read
Prompt Engineering for Developers: What Actually Changes Output Quality
The prompting techniques that measurably improve coding results — context, specificity, examples — without the mysticism.
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