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Markdown vs Vector Database for AI LLMs: A Beginner's Guide
Wait β aren't these two different things? Yes, and that's exactly the point. Comparing Markdown and Vector Databases is a bit like comparing a Word document to a filing cabinet. One is a format, ...
How My AI Workflow Evolved from Prompts to Workflow
<![CDATA[ This post is a summary and discussion of the original article "How My AI Workflow Evolved from Prompts to Workflow" by Hoang Nguyen, published on codeaholicguy.com on April 11, 2026. All ...
Beyond Prompts: The Evolution of AI-Driven Engineering Workflows
This article is inspired by the work of Hoang Nguyen. The Illusion of Speed in the Prompt Era For the past two years, the industry has been obsessed with the "Prompt." We've been told that...
DevPulse: Architecture of a Real-Time AI Workspace
<![CDATA[ DevPulse started from a simple premise: project data should not be frozen. In most developer tools, AI features operate on a snapshot β data that was indexed last night, or whenever a bac...
How Claude Agents Actually Work: A 6-Layer Architecture Breakdown
<![CDATA[ Most developers, when they first wire up an LLM agent, carry a flawed mental model: the model runs code. It does not. Understanding where the boundary actually sits β what Anthropic's inf...
How to Start a Feature With Superpowers: A Step-by-Step Guide
You've installed Superpowers. Now what? The good news: you don't need to learn any special commands or memorize a workflow. You just describe what you want to build β and Superpowers quietly takes...
Superpowers: The Agentic Skills Framework That Makes Claude Code Actually Think Before Coding
The Problem With Every AI Coding Agent Out of the Box You open Claude Code. You type "build me a user authentication system." And within seconds it's already writing UserController.cs β no questio...
Tokenmaxxing: Is Burning More AI Tokens Actually a Sign of Productivity?
Jensen Huang says he'd be "very concerned" if an engineer earning $500,000 a year spent less than $250,000 on AI tokens. Andrej Karpathy says "the name of the game is tokens." Meta's CTO calls hea...
Smart Context System: Give Your AI a Long-Term Memory for Real Projects
The Problem: Your AI Has Amnesia Imagine you just joined a new project. You open Cursor, ask it why a certain tax calculation works the way it does β and it has no idea. It sees the code, but it...
Skill-Based AI Execution: When Prompts Are No Longer Enough
When Prompts Are No Longer Enough There's a specific moment every senior dev hits when working with AI β not when it starts making mistakes, but when you realize you can no longer predict when it w...