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Agentic AI Engineering in Practice: How AI Engineers and Forward-Deployed Engineers Build with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini

Rudrendu Paul |
A practical, three-tool guide to the AI-native software development life cycle (SDLC): Plan, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, Maintain, reimagined for agentic coding. In March 2025, a small nonprofit rese... read more

Claude Code Observability with OpenTelemetry

Puneet Singh |
Agentic coding tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Cursor have become ubiquitous for everyday software development. As agentic systems mature, much of the work developers hav... read more

How to Build AI Systems That Know When They Don't Know: A Practical Guide

Chidiebere Njoku |
Large Language Models (LLMs) have fundamentally changed how we build internal business applications. They allow developers to create intelligent software that can synthesize complex corporate data, an... read more

How AI Chips Are Made

Beau Carnes |
We just published a comprehensive, first-principles course on the semiconductor supply chain on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel. Taught by hardware specialist Kian Kyars, this deep dive explains... read more

How OpenTelemetry Works: A Complete Guide

Chosen Vincent |
If you’re a software developer or DevOps engineer, you've probably come across OpenTelemetry. It comes up a lot, especially when talking about observability, monitoring, or debugging distributed syste... read more

How to Use Skills in Agentic Flutter Development: A Handbook for Devs

Atuoha Anthony |
One of the biggest misconceptions about AI-assisted development is that using AI means giving up the engineering experience you've built over the years. It doesn't. You can take the architecture patte... read more

The Builder Design Pattern: A Better Approach to Complex Object Construction

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole |
Some objects are simple, like a string, number, or boolean. You create them in one line and move on. Other objects aren't simple at all, like a carousel widget that needs an item count, an item builde... read more

How Quantum Connectivity Shapes What Your Quantum Computer Can Actually Compute

Casmir Onyekani |
Suppose your quantum program needs to apply a two-qubit operation between qubits 0 and 50. From the programmer's perspective, that sounds simple. You have two qubits. You have a gate that operates on... read more

Feature Modularization in Flutter: How to Combine Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design for Self-Contained, Scalable Features

Oluwaseyi Fatunmole |
As an engineer working on a small team, your current structure could fly. But what if your team, all contributing to the same codebase, reaches 20 or more people at scale? You'll need careful design t... read more

Why You Should Never Send Emails Inside Your API Requests

Chinedu Otutu |
Your signup endpoint looks fine in development. A user registers, you save the row, you call your email provider, and you return 201 Created. Everyone gets a welcome email. You ship it. Then productio... read more