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blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

MCP FAQ: Turn AI Assistants Into Product Intelligence Partners

MCP connects AI assistants to your codebase intelligence. Stop explaining your product architecture—let Claude and Cursor query it directly.

blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

AI Coding Workflow Optimization: The Ultimate Guide

Most developers waste 30-90 minutes understanding code context before writing a single line. Here's how to optimize your AI coding workflow.

blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

The AI Development Productivity Mistake Killing Engineering Teams

AI coding tools promise 10x productivity but deliver 10x confusion instead. The problem isn't the AI—it's the missing context layer your team ignored.

blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

The Complete Best AI Coding Assistants Guide That Actually Works

Forget feature lists. This guide ranks AI coding assistants by what matters: context quality, codebase understanding, and real-world developer experience.

blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

AI for Software Development FAQ: The Shift-Everywhere Approach

Shift-left is dead. Modern AI requires code intelligence at every stage. Here's what actually works when AI needs to understand your entire codebase.

blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

Knowledge Graphs for Codebases: The Future of Developer Tools

Why representing your codebase as a knowledge graph changes everything — from AI assistance to onboarding. The data model matters more than the tools.

blogengineer
08-Feb-2026

AI Code Review Tools That Actually Find Bugs, Not Just Style Issues

Most AI code reviewers catch formatting issues. Here's what tools actually find logic bugs, race conditions, and security holes—and why context matters.

technicalengineer
06-Feb-2026

How We Cluster 4,000 Files Into Features Using Louvain Community Detection

Technical deep dive into graph-based feature discovery. How Louvain modularity optimization groups files into meaningful features automatically.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogengineer
06-Feb-2026

Why Copilot Doesn't Work on Your Hardest Tickets

AI code completion breaks down on cross-file refactors, legacy code, and tickets requiring business context. The problem isn't the AI — it's the context gap.

Tariro Mukandi
blogcto
06-Feb-2026

Your Codebase Knows Everything Your Team Has Forgotten

Git history, call graphs, and change patterns contain more reliable tribal knowledge than any wiki. The problem isn't capturing knowledge — it's extracting it.

Vaibhav Verma
blogcto
06-Feb-2026

The Understanding Tax: Why Your Developers Spend 90 Minutes Per Ticket Before Writing Code

Engineering teams lose 20-35% of developer time to context acquisition. This invisible tax is baked into every estimate and accepted as normal. It shouldn't be.

Vaibhav Verma
blogcto
05-Feb-2026

Measuring Technical Debt: Beyond SonarQube

Code quality scanners measure syntax. Real technical debt lives in architectural complexity, dependency rot, and knowledge concentration. Here's how to measure what matters.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
technicalengineer
05-Feb-2026

Model Context Protocol: The Missing Layer for Code AI

Why 60+ specialized MCP tools beat generic LLM prompting for code intelligence. Deep dive into the protocol that makes AI actually useful for developers.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogcto
05-Feb-2026

Sprint Planning Without 3-Hour Meetings

AI-generated dev plans with file-level tasks based on actual codebase architecture. How to cut sprint planning overhead by 50%.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
technicalengineer
05-Feb-2026

Call Graphs That Prevent Production Incidents

How understanding code dependencies and blast radius before deployment prevents the bugs that code review misses.

Tariro Mukandi
blogcto
05-Feb-2026

Onboarding Developers: From 6 Months to 2 Weeks

How AI-powered codebase context and code tours transform developer onboarding from months of tribal knowledge transfer to weeks of guided exploration.

Vivian M. Otieno
technicalengineer
05-Feb-2026

Why Your Codebase Is a Graph, Not Files

Deep dive into graph-based code analysis and why traditional file-based thinking fails at scale.

Tariro Mukandi
guidecto
05-Feb-2026

How to Protect Company Data When Using AI Agents: Complete Guide

Complete guide to securing company data when adopting AI coding agents. Data classification, access controls, audit trails, and practical security architecture.

Vivian M. Otieno
technicalengineer
04-Feb-2026

Database Schema as Code Intelligence

Automatic ERD generation, schema analysis, and relationship mapping from live databases. How your schema tells the story your code won't.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogcto
04-Feb-2026

AI Development Productivity Tips: Avoid the 73% Failure Rate

Most AI tool adoptions fail to deliver ROI. Here are the productivity patterns that actually work for engineering teams.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
blogengineer
03-Feb-2026

Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering

AI-generated prototypes are impressive demos. They're terrible production systems. Here's where vibe coding ends and real engineering begins.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogcto
03-Feb-2026

The Hidden Cost of Context Switching for Developers

Each context switch costs a developer 23 minutes to regain focus. In a typical day, that adds up to 2-3 hours of lost deep work.

Tariro Mukandi
blogengineer
02-Feb-2026

Why Your Code Review Process Is Catching the Wrong Bugs

Code reviews catch style issues and obvious errors. They miss the architectural bugs that cause production incidents. Here's why, and how to fix it.

Vivian M. Otieno
guidecto
02-Feb-2026

How to Evaluate Code Intelligence Tools in 2026

A buyer's guide to code intelligence platforms. What to look for, what to ignore, and how to run a meaningful proof of concept.

Tariro Mukandi
guidecto
02-Feb-2026

Spec Drift Detection: Stop Building Features Nobody Asked For

How spec drift silently derails engineering teams and how to detect it before you ship the wrong thing.

Tariro Mukandi
blogengineer
01-Feb-2026

Feature Flags Are Technical Debt in Disguise

That "temporary" feature flag from 6 months ago now controls 3 code paths. Here's how feature flag debt accumulates and how to detect it.

Tariro Mukandi
blogcto
01-Feb-2026

The Pre-Code Intelligence Category: What It Is and Why It Matters

Every tool helps you write code faster. Nothing helps you understand what to write. Pre-code intelligence is the missing category.

Vaibhav Verma
guideengineer
31-Jan-2026

How to Give Claude Code Full Project Context

Claude Code is powerful but limited by what it can see. Here's how to feed it codebase-level context for dramatically better results on complex tasks.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
blogengineer
31-Jan-2026

The Developer Tool Stack in 2026: What's Changed

AI reshaped the developer tool landscape. Here's what the modern engineering stack looks like and where the gaps remain.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogengineer
31-Jan-2026

25 Best AI Coding Tools in 2026: GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Top Alternatives

Comprehensive comparison of the top AI coding tools — Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Cody, and more. Updated for 2026 with real benchmarks on complex codebases.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
guideengineer
30-Jan-2026

How to Use Glue with Cursor: The Context-First Workflow

A practical guide to combining Glue's codebase intelligence with Cursor's AI editing for a workflow that understands before it generates.

Tariro Mukandi
technicalengineer
30-Jan-2026

Monorepo vs Microservices: The Knowledge Management Perspective

The monorepo vs microservices debate usually focuses on build systems. The real difference is in how knowledge is distributed and discovered.

Tariro Mukandi
blogengineer
28-Jan-2026

Why Sourcegraph Isn't Enough: Code Search vs Code Intelligence

Code search finds where code is. Code intelligence tells you why it exists, what depends on it, and what breaks if you change it.

Tariro Mukandi
blogengineer
28-Jan-2026

Lovable vs Dev: Migration Comparison for AI-Powered Development Platforms

Side-by-side comparison of Lovable and Dev for AI-powered application building. When to use each and how they compare to code intelligence tools.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogcto
27-Jan-2026

AI Agents for Code: Build vs Buy in 2026

Every team considers building their own AI coding agent. Here's when it makes sense and when you should buy instead.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
technicalengineer
27-Jan-2026

Incident Prevention: Using Code Intelligence for Proactive Reliability

Most incident prevention is reactive. Code intelligence makes it proactive by identifying risk before changes ship.

Tariro Mukandi
guideengineer
26-Jan-2026

How to Use AI for Code Review Without Losing the Human Element

AI can flag dependency issues and style violations. Humans should focus on architecture, business logic, and mentoring. Here's how to split the work.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogcto
25-Jan-2026

Glue vs CodeSee vs Sourcegraph: Code Intelligence Compared

An honest comparison of code intelligence tools. What each does best, where each falls short, and how to choose.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
guideengineer
25-Jan-2026

Understanding Your Codebase in 2026: The Complete Guide

Everything you need to know about codebase understanding tools, techniques, and workflows. From grep to AI-powered intelligence.

Tariro Mukandi
blogcto
24-Jan-2026

How Engineering Teams Should Prepare for AI-Native Development

AI-native development isn't about using more AI tools. It's about restructuring workflows around AI strengths and human judgment.

Vivian M. Otieno
technicalengineer
24-Jan-2026

Building Scalable AI Applications: Architecture Patterns That Actually Work

Practical architecture patterns for AI-powered applications — from RAG pipelines to agent orchestration. Lessons from building production AI systems.

Vivian M. Otieno
technicalengineer
23-Jan-2026

Stop Hand-Rolling Feature Discovery: Here Is the Math That Actually Works

Manual feature mapping is expensive, incomplete, and always stale. Graph-based automated discovery finds features humans miss. Here is the algorithm.

Vivian M. Otieno
blogcto
23-Jan-2026

Why 80% of Dev Teams Will Use AI Code Tools by 2025 (And Why Most Will Be Disappointed)

The prediction came true - adoption is massive. But ROI? That is a different story. Here is why most teams are disappointed and what the successful ones do differently.

Ravi Kishore DSouza
technicalengineer
22-Jan-2026

Cloud-Native Development: Why Understanding Your Infrastructure Matters More Than Your Framework

Serverless and Kubernetes changed deployment. But they also changed how developers need to understand their systems. The complexity moved, it did not disappear.

Andres Felipe Ramos
technicalengineer
17-Jan-2026

OpenAI Swarm: Lightweight Multi-Agent Coordination for Developer Tools

How lightweight agent frameworks like OpenAI Swarm compare to production multi-agent systems. When simplicity wins and when you need more.

Tariro Mukandi