Running my Personal AI Assistant Stack for Less Than a Sandwich a Month
How I built an almost-serverless Hermes Agent on AWS for under $10/month — EC2, two Lambdas, pay-as-you-go LLMs, least-privilege security, and auto-shutdown when idle.
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How I built an almost-serverless Hermes Agent on AWS for under $10/month — EC2, two Lambdas, pay-as-you-go LLMs, least-privilege security, and auto-shutdown when idle.
A visual breakdown of the 2025 OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications. Each vulnerability explained through how the attack actually works, not metaphors.
My portfolio V1 was vibe-coded on Replit for $15 in 3 days. V2 got a full SEO and UI/UX audit, then Claude Code running DeepSeek V4 Pro fixed everything for 87 cents and 37 million tokens. The harness is the value, not the LLM.
The end of an interview is not a courtesy lap. It's the only part of the conversation where you hold the power. Here are five questions that surface what companies hide in plain sight.
Three companies reached me for a senior IC role. One sent a full-app challenge, one sent leetcode, one held a live system design session. Only one was testing for the job that actually exists.
Lambda is 11 years old. Cloud Run is 6. So why are seed-stage startups still opening with Kubernetes clusters and $140K DevOps hires? A case for managed services, with honest counterpoints on where the model breaks.
The media blamed AI for deleting a company database in nine seconds. The real failure was an engineering checklist from 2005 that nobody ran.
My honest timeline of learning generative AI hands-on — from a talk in Alexandria to failed hardware bets, cloud LLMs, and agentic workflows, with real costs and real failures included.
"Agentic AI is the critical step beyond raw LLMs, adding memory, planning, tools, and self-correction to enable goal-driven, multi-step work.
The importance of Emotional intelligence for engineers in workspace
A Practical Guide to the 12-Factor App Principles
A fictional story about the trap software developers fall into when they push too much work, sacrifice quality, and how to deal with such a situation.
Event sourcing is powerful when you really need to track the history of state changes in your application. But it comes at a cost: added complexity, storage overhead, and operational challenges. Keep your stack simple whenever possible—think twice (or even thrice) before adopting it.
If you are a DevOps engineer, or even working in IT in general, then this video is for you. We’ll talk about *The Phoenix Project*, which is not just a story, but a practical guide for anyone suffering from messy workflows and endless IT problems.
Explore the memorable stories and analogies from 'The Pragmatic Programmer' that have guided software engineers for decades, from broken windows to stone soup, and discover how these narratives provide practical wisdom for modern development.
The story of the manifesto that transformed the software industry - from an email idea to a global revolution in the Utah mountains in 2001
How I built a professional bilingual website with modern tech stack, AI assistance, and automation - going from concept to production in just 3 days for $15.