James Anderson

Software developer passionate about building modern web and SaaS applications. I enjoy working with .NET, exploring AI tools, and turning ideas into practical products.

Dublin, Ireland Joined on Jun 4, 2026

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Resignations sparked by AI replacement fears

James Anderson

Sep 15

The Quiet Weight of Working in Tech in the AI Era

#discuss #mentalhealth #career #ai

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Production reality checks over demos

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Sep 8

Most 'AI Agents' Are Just If-Statements in a Trench Coat

#ai #softwareengineering #webdev #agents

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Demos earn misplaced trust before safeguards exist

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Sep 2

Agents That Act Need Brakes, Not Just Brains

#ai #llm #agents #webdev

7 min read

Shifts the builder's role from typist to architect

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Sep 1

Building With AI When You Don't Know Architecture: A Survival Guide

#ai #beginners #webdev

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Shows why 73% of RAG failures happen upstream

James Anderson

Aug 25

The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG

#ai #llm #rag #webdev

11 min read

James Anderson

Sep 27

Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection (and We're Not Ready)

#ai #security #agents #webdev

7 min read

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Docs rot faster than code

James Anderson

Sep 26

A Field Guide to AI Documentation: Model Cards, Eval Reports, Agent Cards, and More

#ai #documentation #webdev #agents

9 min read

Top comments reveal modern coding lost its magic

James Anderson

Sep 23

Something About Coding Stopped Feeling Good — and It Took Me a While to Figure Out What

#discuss #career #ai #watercooler

6 min read

Reflog acts as a safety net

James Anderson

Sep 22

The Git Recovery Guide: How to Undo Anything (Without Panic)

#git #programming #webdev #beginners

7 min read

Developers weigh in on UI priorities

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Sep 21

How to Design Interfaces People Find Effortless (Using Real Science)

#discuss #uxdesign #webdev #beginners

7 min read

James Anderson

Sep 20

Gemini Hacked Three Companies Using the Dumbest Trick in the Book

#ai #agents #security #webdev

6 min read

Build mental maps over reading every file

James Anderson

Sep 19

Thrown Into a Huge Unfamiliar Codebase? Here's Your Survival Guide.

#beginners #webdev #programming #career

6 min read

Comments note privilege needed for career pivots

James Anderson

Sep 16

The Best Thing AI Did to Tech Might Be Pushing Us Out of It

#discuss #career #ai #mentalhealth

5 min read

Audits show most agents are just rigid pipelines

James Anderson

Sep 14

The Steelman: When an AI Agent Actually Earns Its Complexity

#ai #software #programming #architecture

7 min read

Blames Tailwind CSS for the aesthetic

James Anderson

Sep 13

The Purple Gradient Problem: Why AI UI All Looks Alike (and How to Fix It)

#ai #webdev #design #frontend

8 min read

Review times jumped over four hundred percent

James Anderson

Sep 10

The Pull Requests Got Bigger and Nobody's Reading Them Anymore

#ai #softwareengineering #codereview #github

8 min read

Comments debate human identity post-automation

James Anderson

Sep 9

The Mathematicians Just Felt It: What Happens to a Lifetime of Work When a Machine Finishes It in Days?

#discuss #ai #career #mentalhealth

7 min read

James Anderson

Sep 7

How to Add AI to an Existing App Without Breaking It

#ai #webdev #architecture #programming

7 min read

James Anderson

Sep 6

The Next.js Security Checklist for AI-Generated Code

#nextjs #security #ai #webdev

10 min read

James Anderson

Sep 5

AI Is Getting Dramatically More Capable, Fast. Where Is This Heading?

#discuss #ai #chatgpt #techtalks

7 min read

Tackling stealthy gray failures

James Anderson

Aug 31

9 Ways Your AI Agent Silently Fails (and How to Catch Each)

#ai #agents #llm #webdev

8 min read

James Anderson

Aug 30

Prompt Fluency Is the New Literacy — and Most Devs Are Winging It

#ai #productivity #career #llm

7 min read

James Anderson

Aug 29

How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

8 min read

The courier problem of manual tab-hopping

James Anderson

Aug 26

Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

#ai #productivity #llm #webdev

8 min read

Readers confess painful over-engineering realities

James Anderson

Aug 24

7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)

#ai #llm #webdev #programming

8 min read

James Anderson

Aug 23

Why LLMs Are Bad at Math, Explained Simply

#discuss #ai #llm #machinelearning

9 min read

James Anderson

Aug 22

Why LLMs Hallucinate, Explained Simply — and How to Actually Stop It

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

10 min read

James Anderson

Aug 19

Prompt Caching, Explained: How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 70-90% (With Real Math)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

6 min read

James Anderson

Aug 18

Inside the Tokenizer: Why the Same Prompt Costs Different Amounts on Every Model

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

8 min read

James Anderson

Aug 17

A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself

#flutter #ai #claude #designsystem

3 min read

James Anderson

Aug 16

How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood

#coding #computerscience #software #softwareengineering

6 min read

James Anderson

Jun 8

How I Stopped Burning Out as a Developer

#career #productivity #mentalhealth #webdev

4 min read

James Anderson

Jun 4

How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading)

#ai #programming #software #career

4 min read