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I've you've been checking the trending repos and top news in HN for the last couple of weeks, you will have noticed this pattern already.

"Open source" is becoming "open markdown" because nobody writes source code by themselves, but they may tweak markdown files

Hi everyone,

I was checking recently about AI security. Most articles warn you about the AI your users interact with. They don’t mention the AI tools you’re building with. I’ve used AI coding assistants to write code, generate documentation, and even learn cryptography fundamentals, all to deploy services in production. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, updated after 2025, describes 10 risks that apply just as much to your internal AI toolchain as to the chatbot you’re shipping. The threat surface isn’t only in front of your users. It starts in your IDE.

Hi everyone, Just sharing a write-up on harness engineering, a term that the big AI labs have started using for "AI agents guardrails."

I did a deep dive about how to make AI work better for your use case without changing the model.

Spec-Driven Development or Spec-Engineering is a new trend, popularized by IDEs like Amazon's Kiro, and it brings AI to the traditional software development without disrupting it as much as Prompt Engineering

I found many people treating it like a chore, instead of seeing the opportunity of going deep into investigating the issue and using it as a future promotion artifact.

I wrote this article about what a good postmortem looks like

Sometimes, thinking about growing as a software engineer is too abstract.

I made some visuals for each level to understand what scope actually means in each

I hope this helps anyone cut through the buzzwords and learn what they really mean

These are the books and newsletters that I'd recommend my younger brother, who is starting his journey to become a software engineer.

What would you recommend him?

With nice visuals

I was reflecting on how we don't need 40h workweeks anymore. I'm curious if anyone has worked in <40h workweek models

I realized pretty soon that 2 hours of coding wasn't the same when I was fresh in the morning than tired at night.

But I didn't know other people could find it different until I learned about chronotypes.

I'm sharing what I learned here

I've received very good feedback on this one, so I decided to share it here too. It's 5 days into the year, but it's never too late to start being intentional with our efforts in our career

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