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I Cut My Vercel Bill by 80% by Moving to a $5 VPS
Vercel charged $240/month for a blog. I moved to a $5 Hetzner VPS and the site is faster. Full migration guide with Docker, Caddy, and deployment scripts.
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My 10-Year-Old PC is a Better AI Server Than AWS
Stop paying AWS $300/month for AI inference. A used $200 workstation runs local LLMs faster and cheaper. Full home lab setup guide.
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The Junior Developer is Dead: Your First Job is Now Just Being a Glorified AI Babysitter
The "Broken Rung" problem: If AI does all the tasks juniors used to learn on, how do you become Senior? Entry-level devs in 2026 are AI babysitters, not coders.
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Your AI-Generated Login Page is Basically an Open Door for Script Kiddies
AI-generated authentication code is insecure by default. Missing input sanitization, hardcoded secrets, OWASP Top 10 violations. Here are real examples of vulnerable code.
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I Let AI Write My Technical Docs and Now Nobody (Including Me) Knows How the App Works
AI-generated documentation is 90% introduction and 0% "how to actually run the migrations." AI lacks domain context. Here's the documentation disaster unfolding across tech.
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Dev Tools
Cursor is Just VS Code with a Better Submit Button—Is That Really Worth $240 a Year?
Cursor is a VS Code fork with an integrated GPT interface. VS Code + Continue.dev + Ollama does 80% of the same for $0. Here's the budget-conscious breakdown.
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