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How AI broke the DRY principle — and why that’s a good thing

“Don’t Repeat Yourself.”For years, this was sacred. Every software engineer has heard it drilled into their head like a mantra. If you duplicated code, you were either lazy, inexperienced, or on a deadline that should’ve been managed better.But then AI showed up.And suddenly, we’re watching an entire generation of developers intentionally repeating patterns, snippets, and…

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Athentication session & Application session

🧩 Big Picture There are two types of sessions in a web app: Authentication session (Cognito, tokens) Application session (DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) They interact, but they serve different layers of your application. 🔹 1️⃣ Authentication session — “Who is this user?” Managed by Amazon Cognito (or another identity provider). Exists to prove the user’s identity….

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From Zero to Production: Creating ReceiptFlow Pro in 10 Hours Using AI-Powered Development

The Challenge: From Paper to DigitalPicture this: It’s Ganpati festival season, and like many building communities, we were drowning in paperwork. Residents’ contributions were being recorded the old-fashioned way - pen, paper, and endless manual calculations. The inefficiency was staggering, and the paper waste was concerning. That’s when I decided to take on a challenge: Could I…

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