You get a big ask: plan a week‑long family reunion for 15 people, including flights, a rental house, and a daily activity schedule. You can already see the tabs multiplying. Now imagine handing the entire job to a capable digital aide that compares, books, and organizes while you focus on decisions that matter.
That is the promise of Agentic AI, supposedly
(more…)Part 6: Final Features and Key Takeaways After a challenging but rewarding debugging journey, we finally had a stable, working application. The core features were in place, and the connection between the frontend and our serverless backend was solid. Now, it was time for the payoff: enhancing the application with Read more
Part 5: The Debugging Gauntlet – When AI Assistants (and Humans) Make Mistakes This is the most important part of our story. No project, especially one involving new technologies, works perfectly on the first try. The process of debugging—of hitting a wall, diagnosing the problem, and finding a solution—is where Read more
Part 4: The Build – Pair Programming with an AI With our Google Cloud infrastructure ready and our Product Requirements Document (PRD) in hand, it’s time to start building. This is where the power of AI-assisted development truly shines. Using our detailed PRD as the “master prompt,” we can now Read more
Part 3: Laying the Foundation – A Step-by-Step Guide to GCP Setup With our Product Requirements Document (PRD) as our guide, it’s time to move from planning to practice. Before we can write or deploy any code, we need to set up the foundational infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Read more
Part 2: From Idea to Blueprint – Why the PRD is Your Most Important Prompt In any development project, the temptation to jump straight into coding is strong. You have an idea, you’re excited, and you want to see results. However, my primary goal was to learn how to collaborate Read more
I’m a bit bored nursing an injury, so might as well do something productive for a few days. Why 6-Part? Well, it’s good for traffic, clicks, and sessions, but really, why not? I reckon it’d be easier to read.
I kinda miss being a technical writer, PRD writer, and requirements analyst as well, so this would be a fun project for a week.
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It’s no secret, I’ve made this proclamation for years. LinkedIn is arguably the most toxic social media on the internet, more cringey than weird dances, pointing in the air, or even selling Temu garbage. It’s a place where grown, educated adults with professional jobs parade and grift themselves for clout without the direct compensation of OnlyFans.
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Let me be perfectly clear from the start, I love technology. I believe in its power to solve big problems and make our lives better. I’ve been a tech nerd since I was a kid, since Commodore to Apple IIe days.
But true support doesn’t mean blindly cheering from the sidelines. It means asking hard questions, especially when the hype train is roaring ahead without any thought for the tracks it’s laying down, or who might get run over.
My loyalty isn’t to the tech giants, the investment firms, or the CEOs promising a shiny AI future. It’s to you and me, the everyday person who feels things getting more expensive and wonders why. It’s to the broader society that has to live with the consequences of these grand experiments.
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It was 1995, I flick the power switch of my Compaq Presario desktop in my dorm room, the first time I heard that screeching modem tone just weeks before our campus upgraded to T1 connections. That free AOL CD from a PC Mag became my passport to something extraordinary.
Back in those days, the internet felt like exploring a strange new city where every alleyway held potential surprises. You’d stumble into chat rooms with names like “DragonSlayer42” or “BeavisOwnsButthead69” and actually have conversations with real people about ridiculous topics that somehow mattered in the moment. You argue, you laugh, you use weird ASCII combos to make a crude but complex reaction.
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