I’m becoming more convinced that LLMs are moving toward the same structure as payment networks. The models will be incredibly important. But the largest value will not be captured by the raw model layer alone. It will be captured by the layers above it: routing, evals, RAG, MCP, memory, orchestration, agentic workflows, vertical applications, and trust infrastructure. As a founder and developer, t
Ever had users sign up with [email protected] or [email protected]? Disposable email addresses are a headache for any app that relies on real user contact. I built burner-bouncer to solve this — a zero-dependency libra
I finished an English series on the way I think ordinary people can start using AI for real work. The point is not to become an AI expert first. The point is to have one place where you can say what you want, give the tool access to the right folder, and check the result. Anything important still needs a human pause: publishing, deleting, paying, or authorizing. My preferred starting point is simp
This presentation is an adaptation of a keynote address delivered by Sasha Le, Senior Engineer, Tide Foundation at the launch event of the RMIT AWS Innovation Lab (RAIL) on 21st of April, 2026 In 2022, a ransomware group named Lapsus$ breached some of the most sophisticated tech companies on the planet. The list included Microsoft, Nvidia, Okta, Uber, and Samsung. The ringleader wasn't a state-spo
Here is what I learned after 50 interviews and fixing my resume after every rejection. The problem was never my skills. It was how I presented them. I wrote the same things most developers write. "Worked on the API." "Helped with database optimization." "Responsible for code reviews." Those sentences describe presence. They do not describe contribution. After months of getting ignored or rejected,
When you bind Ctrl+S to "save" in a web app, do you check event.key === "s" or event.code === "KeyS"? The honest answer is "I don't remember, I copy-paste from Stack Overflow." Until a Dvorak user reports the shortcut is broken — or a Japanese IME user reports it fires mid-composition. This is a live inspector for KeyboardEvent: press any key (or combination), see every field — key, code, keyCode,
Most developers like to believe that a good product will eventually speak for itself. Sometimes it does. More often, it quietly sits on the internet, perfectly engineered, carefully documented, and almost completely invisible. That is not because the product is bad. It is because the web is crowded. Search engines, communities, newsletters, blogs, GitHub repositories, comparison pages, and documen
When building modern applications, one problem shows up everywhere: How do I uniquely identify data across systems? That’s where UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) come in. A UUID is a 128-bit unique identifier used to identify information in distributed systems. Example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 It looks random - and that’s the point. Traditional IDs (like auto-increment integers