Developer Experience
4 posts tagged Developer Experience — engineering notes and field reports from the TechKis team.
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- 9 min read·AI EngineeringArchitectureDeveloper Experience
Building AI features without LangChain — the raw-SDK path most teams should take first
You don't need a framework to ship an AI feature. Here's what the raw provider SDK actually gives you, the small amount of glue you write yourself, and when a framework finally earns its place.
Read post - 9 min read·AI EngineeringPrompt EngineeringTesting
Prompt engineering is becoming a software engineering problem
Clever wording was phase one. Production prompts now need versioning, tests, evals, regression tracking and CI — the same discipline as any other code. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Read post - 9 min read·AI EngineeringDeveloper ExperienceEngineering Practice
What AI coding agents actually change about shipping client software
AI coding agents make generation cheap and review expensive. What actually gets faster on client work, what doesn't, and verification discipline that keeps it safe.
Read post - 8 min read·API DesignArchitectureBackend
API-First Development — why the contract should come before the code
API-First means designing the contract before writing the implementation. Here's why that order matters, what it changes about how teams work, and the practical workflow that makes it work without slowing you down.
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