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Levi McGlone
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Levi McGlone's blog about coding and tech
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[Latest Posts]
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Don't Get Hooked: Opinionated Rules for Better React
This post is going to be a very technical deep dive into React and how I think React code should be written. For context, I’ve been writing React since 2016....
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AI Usage that Actually Pays Dividends
I have observed a concerning trend on social media where AI agents are viewed as magic boxes. Code snippets, spreadsheets, and other bits of relevant context are shared and then...
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The Tech Buffet Problem
Have you noticed that many tech companies treat their product like a buffet? The core product was really good and built the company. Then, the business decided to expand quickly...
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Domain Knowledge: The Context Your Agent Doesn't Have
If you’ve been using an AI agent in your work, I’d bet that you’ve made a crucial error of not supplying complete context in your prompts. It is easy to...
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Pitfalls of React
Over my career, I have worked in several React codebases ranging from mature codebases of over a million lines of code to very small codebases that were less than 50k...
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Avoiding AI Slop
I was in a skip-level meeting the other day with an engineering leader. We were talking about AI and how using it can often lead to garbage code that is...
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Solving Problems with AI the Right Way
There’s a lot of buzz about AI and how it can make our lives as software engineers better, easier, and faster. Some executives leaders are fantasizing about how non-technical employees...
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