AI Coding Assistants
Add an LLM to a Web Application You Have to Maintain
Your LLM call works in a test script. Production needs a server-side proxy, timeouts, retries that tell a rate limit from a spend cap,…
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AI Coding Assistants
When Not to Use an AI Coding Assistant
A practical checklist for PHP and WordPress developers on when writing the code yourself beats prompting an AI assistant, and why.
AI Coding Assistants
What AI Coding Tools Actually Cost on a Real Project
GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Claude Code pricing as of today, sourced from each vendor's own page, plus the review-time cost that never appears on…
AI Coding Assistants
AI Coding Assistants Compared for PHP and WordPress Work
General-purpose IDE agents versus WordPress-specific snippet tools for PHP and WordPress development, and how to pick between them for a real task.
AI Coding Assistants
Constraining What an AI Agent Can Touch in Your Repo
How to keep an AI coding agent away from config files, secrets and lockfiles, what an ignore file actually guarantees, and what it does…
AI Coding Assistants
Writing AI Coding Prompts That Produce Reviewable Code
How to phrase a coding request so the AI's output is a small, checkable diff instead of an impressive one you cannot verify in…
AI Coding Assistants
AI Code and Open-Source Licenses: The Attribution Problem
AI-generated code can carry copyleft obligations with no attribution signal at all. What GPL contamination means and how to realistically check for it.
AI Coding Assistants
Who Owns the Code an AI Wrote for You?
The current US position on AI-generated code copyright, why creative input matters, and why this is not the same answer everywhere. Not legal advice.
AI Coding Assistants
When AI-Generated Code Passes Tests and Is Still Wrong
A green test suite does not mean correct behavior. Why AI-written tests miss edge cases, and what actually catches the bug they didn't.
AI Coding Assistants
Giving an AI Assistant the Right Amount of Codebase Context
Why an AI assistant keeps ignoring your conventions, what to actually feed it as context, and the drift problem that shows up months later.
AI Coding Assistants
AI Coding Assistants and Your API Keys: A Security Checklist
AI assistants read your whole workspace, .env files included. Here is what to exclude, what to rotate, and how to tell if a key…
AI Coding Assistants
Ten Checks Before You Merge AI-Written Code
A short, ordered checklist for reviewing AI-generated code before it merges, from dependency checks to actually running the feature.
AI Coding Assistants
Reviewing an AI Pull Request That Touches 40 Files
When an agent-generated pull request is too large to read start to finish, here is a method that works instead of just more willpower.
AI Coding Assistants
The AI Invented a Function: How to Check Fast
A suggested method call looks plausible but might not exist. The fast way to confirm an AI-generated API call is real before you trust…
AI Coding Assistants
Spot a Hallucinated npm Package Before You Install
An AI assistant imported a package you don't recognize. Here is the fast check before you run npm install, and what to do if…