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Free, practical articles drawn from our ebooks.

• Vibe-Coded App Security: A 30-Minute Pre-Launch Checklist

  Apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Claude Code often leak keys, skip Supabase RLS and trust the browser. The 7 risks that matter and how to check each.

  5 November 2026 · 7 min read

• A Vibe Coding Workflow That Ships: Plan, Code, Test, Deploy

  A repeatable loop for coding with AI assistants: context that works, planning prompts, small batches, tests from the spec not the code, and AI self-review.

  5 November 2026 · 7 min read

• Workflows vs Agents: The 6 AI Agent Orchestration Patterns (and When to Go Multi-Agent)

  Prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer and autonomous agents, plus what the evidence says about multi-agent systems.

  5 November 2026 · 7 min read

• AI Agents for Backend Engineers: What Carries Over and What's New

  Tools, memory, durable execution, idempotency, tracing and prompt-injection containment: a translation layer from backend engineering to production AI agents.

  5 November 2026 · 6 min read

• Why Your AI Coding Agent Bill Grows With Every Turn (and 7 Ways to Cut It)

  Claude Code, Cursor and Codex resend the whole context on every request, so cost grows roughly with the square of session length. Here is how to cut it.

  4 November 2026 · 7 min read

• How to Test an AI Agent: Start With Error Analysis, Not Metrics

  Agents fail silently with a confident answer and HTTP 200. A practical way to find out if yours works: flakiness runs, error analysis, and narrow graders.

  4 November 2026 · 7 min read

• Why AI Writes Broken ESP32 Code (and How to Fix It for Arduino-ESP32 3.x)

  AI assistants keep generating Arduino-ESP32 2.x code like ledcSetup that fails on core 3.x. The version trap, the pin rules, and prompts that avoid both.

  4 November 2026 · 6 min read

• Design 3D-Printable Parts With AI: A Beginner's Guide to CadQuery and build123d

  Describe a part in words, let AI write CadQuery or build123d code, check it, print it. What works, what fails, and a part brief template.

  4 November 2026 · 6 min read