Feb 27, 2026
Building My Own Boilerplate
By Patrick Guevara
Vibe-coding made starting projects easy and maintaining them painful. So I built a Laravel & Vue boilerplate over a weekend — the old-fashioned way, with AI.
Thoughts
Ideas on leadership, systems, and applied AI
A running notebook of patterns, experiments, and perspective shifts from shipping products and leading teams.
Jan 27, 2026
Six Months With Claude & Codex: An Honest Retrospective
By Patrick Guevara
A time-bounded look at how my AI coding tools have evolved — the honeymoon, the frustrations, and where I landed.
Jan 23, 2026
When AI Coding Feels Like Magic
By Patrick Guevara
Most of the time AI coding is helpful. Occasionally, it's genuinely shocking — and that gap is worth paying attention to.
Jan 20, 2026
The Skill AI Coding Is Quietly Training
By Patrick Guevara
AI coding isn't just changing what we build — it's changing which engineering skills matter.
Jan 16, 2026
The Review Problem: How Do You QA Code You Didn't Write?
By Patrick Guevara
Code review was always about more than catching bugs. AI-generated code changes what review means — and what it misses.
Jan 13, 2026
Prompting Is a Skill, and Most Engineers Are Bad at It
By Patrick Guevara
The gap between engineers who get a lot from AI and those who don't isn't technical ability — it's how they communicate intent.