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Why Your AI-Powered React Native App Needs a Backend – Even a Tiny One
Nowadays, it's easier than ever to spin up a mobile app in hours, even if you don't have any previous experience with Expo and React Native. So you might think,…
Why We Accept Bad Code From Humans But Reject Good Code From AI
I've been noticing something about how developers talk about AI coding agents. They review agent-generated code with a magnifying glass. They point at a variable name they don't like, a…
Vibecoding vs Agentic Engineering: One Ships, the Other Prays
I've been preparing a talk about AI-assisted development and spent a lot of time reading what developers are saying online, in meetups, in conference hallways. A pattern keeps showing up:…
[Dev Weekly #99] Gemini 3.1 Pro is out, Learning how to code is still important, Figma & Claude Code: the best duo
HELLO EVERYONE!!! It’s February 20th, 2026, and you are reading the 99th edition of Codeminer42’s tech news report. Let’s check out what the tech world showed us this week! Gemini…
Building a Practical AI Agent with RAG, MCP, and Ollama
Introduction Over the last year, “AI agents” went from a buzzword to something people actually try to ship. And if you’ve tried to build one beyond a demo, you’ve probably…
