Geshan Manandhar

How to do a zero downtime database (DB) migration (schema change) with a practical example Still relevant after 8 years 🙂

Codegen is not productivity Humans and LLMs both share a fundamental limitation. Humans have a working memory, and LLMs have a context limit. The techniques to work with these limitations are quite similar.

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower buff.ly/PTKFKSp Because otherwise mistakes get made, and mistakes are increasingly expensive at scale. The average value added by a new feature eventually becomes lower than the average value lost through the new bugs it causes

What is agentic engineering? - Agentic Engineering Patterns buff.ly/MTdFZT6

2026 Staff Engineers Need to Get Hands-On Again buff.ly/diLH4kV

Given AI, should I still consider becoming a computer programmer? My response to this is: “Yes, and…” buff.ly/UMjKmOC

We will come to regret our every use of AI buff.ly/HeVMEbm The point is that a better future requires people willing to put care into things, not for the sake of financial gain, but because it is the right thing to do.

Contextual Commits – an open standard for capturing the WHY in git history vidimitrov.substack.com/p/contextual-c…

When AI Writes the World's Software, Who Verifies It? buff.ly/KGzGhrn AI amplifies both good and bad structure. Bad code at AI speed becomes “incomprehensible nightmares.”

Good software knows when to stop | Olivier Girardot's Ramblings buff.ly/jBTd2X2 Ship early, ship often — a half-product that's real beats a perfect product that's vaporware

How to run (any) open LLM with Ollama on Google Cloud Run [Step-by-step] buff.ly/PQ7QwNf

Cloud Run Jobs: A Beginner's Guide to Running Tasks to Completion on a schedule buff.ly/IlqTDsz

Google AI Studio: How to go from a prompt to a geo-location guessing app in minutes buff.ly/FJnL2gy

How to build your own resume reviewer with Google AI Studio in minutes buff.ly/arkFQIB

How to create a hair style changer app using Gemini 3 on Google AI Studio buff.ly/W5H6fxj

How to use Gemini Live audio as an interviewer for a software engineer’s job (with video) buff.ly/b5n4elH

Seeing like a software company buff.ly/hbjERGc

How I became good at leading incidents | Tomasz Tomczyk buff.ly/t3NDPVL There are lots of benefits to being good at this type of a problem - usually you end up with deeper knowledge of the codebase and the product, you get lots of brownie points, it builds...

The Self-Driving Codebase buff.ly/GS4hDQR Now, agents run autonomously across thousands of repos in the background. This trend is already in motion at companies like Stripe, who recently published about their Minions platform, Ramp, and Spotify.

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself buff.ly/EHwI8RM SQL has survived mainframes, the PC revolution, the web, mobile, and it’s now into the AI era. It didn’t survive by being stubborn but by being adaptable.