Technology
pgvector vs Pinecone: A 90-Day Production Benchmark (2026)
Same workload, same embeddings, 90 days each. pgvector cost 30% of Pinecone and matched it on end-to-end latency. Where each system genuinely wins.
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Nilesh Kasar
Exploring tech, coding, and startups. A contributor to The Stack Stories.
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AI
EU AI Act Enforcement Hit May 2026: A Compliance Plan for Small Startups
The European Commission issued its first AI Act infringement notices in May 2026. A practical compliance plan for small teams: what you owe, what you can ignore, and what costs €38K versus €4K to get right.
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Development
Next.js 16 Cache Components: A Real Migration From a 4.2M-MAU Site
We migrated a production publication from Next.js 15.3 to 16's cache components over six weeks. Here are the numbers, the incidents, and what to do differently.
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AI
Claude Skills vs Custom MCP Servers: Which to Build in 2026
Six months and 17 production deployments later, here's when a Claude Skill wins, when an MCP server wins, and the hybrid pattern most teams miss.
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AI
Beyond LLMs: The Future of Neuro-Symbolic AI in Enterprise (2026)
Scaling laws stopped buying us reasoning. The next phase of AI is neuro-symbolic, world-model-driven, and considerably stranger than another transformer.
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AI
The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents in Software Engineering (2026)
Autonomous coding agents stopped being a demo in 2026. Here is what actually shipped, what broke first, and how senior engineering changed shape.
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React 19 Server Actions in Production: A Year of Lessons From a 4M-User App
After 12 months of running React 19 Server Actions on Next.js 15.4 at scale, here is the candid debrief: forms, validation, error handling, and the patterns that survived contact with real users.
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Agentic AI in Production: What I Learned Shipping 14 Autonomous Agents in 2026
After deploying 14 production agents on Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.1, here is the unfiltered playbook on tool design, evals, cost control, and the failure modes nobody warned us about.
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Technology
Browser AI Just Killed My Edge Functions Bill: A Field Report on Gemini Nano in Chrome
Chrome 134 made Gemini Nano generally available through the Prompt API. After porting three features to on-device inference, our edge inference bill fell 71%. Here is the engineering reality.
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Startups
How a 6-Person Startup Runs SRE for 50 Services Using AI Copilots in 2026
We run 50 microservices with six engineers. AI-powered DevOps tooling is the only reason that math works. Here is the actual stack, the cost, and the trade-offs nobody talks about.
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Development
Rust Quietly Took Over JavaScript Tooling: A 2026 Map of What Replaced What
By May 2026 most of the JavaScript build chain has been rewritten in Rust or Go. Here is the practical guide to what to use today, what to skip, and which tools genuinely make a difference.
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity in the Era of Deepfakes and AI Phishing
Voice cloning is now five seconds of audio. Video deepfakes are real-time. The defensive playbook that worked in 2023 is now actively dangerous.
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