Honest reviews, comparisons, and guides for developer tools, IDEs, code editors, and productivity software.
AI-generated authentication code is insecure by default. Missing input sanitization, hardcoded secrets, OWASP Top 10 violations. Here are real examples of vulnerable code.
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.
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.
Code churn increased 41% since 2024. AI doesn't refactorâit just appends. Your codebase is bloating with duplicated, inconsistent logic. Here's the data and the reckoning.
AI can write 1,000 lines of React in 10 seconds. Humans spend 10 hours fixing the state-management mess. HTMX and semantic HTML are the sane alternative.
Your 2021 React 17 app has 24 vulnerabilities but makes $400/month. Don't manually refactor. Use AI snapshot testing, Codemod AST transforms, Strangler Fig pattern, and Percy visual regression to update safely.
Linear loads in 47ms vs Jira's 3.2s. But the speed creates issue bloatâteams we audited had 4,000 open tickets for 8 devs. The beautiful UI is productivity porn. Simple boards ship faster.
Zapier charges $150/month for 10,000 tasks. Make.com costs $9 for 10,000 operations. n8n self-hosted is free. The automation success tax punishes growth. Here's why we migrated.
Slack charged us $6,300/year for 60 users with buried threads and a 90-day message limit trap. Discord offers unlimited history, 4K screen sharing, and voice channels for free. Here's why we migrated.
Adobe charges a 50% early termination fee on "monthly" subscriptions. I used the Photography plan downgrade hack to escape, switched to Affinity V3, and will save $2,835 over 5 years.
Notion's 12.6-second mobile load time isn't a bugâit's the symptom of productivity porn. Here's why your aesthetic dashboard is actually procrastination by design.