Posts tagged “lessons-learned”
2 posts
I spent a week optimizing the wrong thing (a 100-second sync story)
How I parallelized GitHub API calls for a 23% speedup when the real bottleneck was database writes. The fix that actually worked took an afternoon.
January 14, 2026
performanceoptimizationdatabase
AI doesn't write perfect code (and that's fine, if you're paying attention)
Real examples from my codebase where AI-generated code looked correct but wasn't. The bugs were subtle, the lessons were obvious in hindsight.
January 11, 2026
aicode-qualitydebugging