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AI Makes Engineering Discipline More Important, Not Less
For a while, a lot of engineering discipline was justified around human limitations. Now that AI can write code, review code, suggest tests, and help refactor, it is tempting to think some of that discipline matters less. What I’m learning is the opposite. AI is the way, but that does…
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Stop Prompting, Start Engineering Context
This post from Anthropic explains, very clearly, how we should be using AI in software development today. The key idea is simple: prompt engineering is fine for single, isolated questions, but real systems require context engineering. Once you move beyond one-off queries and into agents, workflows, or multi-step reasoning, the…
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Yacht, Bikinis, Beers, Margaritas & Bye Bye 2025
No kids. Just my wife, great friends, unlimited beers, margaritas, sun, and the sea. We spent the weekend hopping between beaches, laughing nonstop, music up, worries down. A proper yacht party, the kind where time slows down and every moment feels exactly right. Just good vibes, good people, and that…
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Just Let Us Purge! 🎃
We went all out for Halloween this year: The Purge style!Masks on, lights off, chaos level: Crazy Family! My wife and I trick-or-treated like kids again, running from house to house, laughing way too much. The kids couldn’t stop laughing either. Pretending to be scary while begging for candy was…
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How My 9-Year-Old Built His First Game with AI
This week, my 9-year-old had a simple but powerful school assignment: stand in front of the class and share what he wants to be when he grows up. Without hesitation, he said he wants to be a software engineer. Hearing that, I decided to make it more than just a…
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Vibe Coding with AI is Changing the Dev Game
There’s something wild happening right now:With the rise of AI tools like GPTs, Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini, and specialized AI-powered IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf, everyone suddenly wants to become a developer. And honestly? That’s awesome. For the first time, people who never wrote a single line of code are…
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Hey, I’m Mario 👋🏻
Hey there 👋Welcome to my corner of the internet. If you’ve landed here, you’re probably wondering what I do, what I’m into, or maybe just curious about the guy behind mariotatis.com. So I figured it was about time I wrote a post to introduce myself properly. I’m Mario Tatis –…