Why I replaced SaaS code review tools with OpenCode running in CI/CD pipelines - cheaper, more secure, and works with any Git provider
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Web development, AI tooling, and building better software
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Why I replaced SaaS code review tools with OpenCode running in CI/CD pipelines - cheaper, more secure, and works with any Git provider
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
I benchmarked 19 web frameworks on how efficiently an AI coding agent can build and extend the same app. Minimal frameworks cost up to 2.9x fewer tokens than full-featured ones.
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• Martin Alderson
Anthropic's red team found 500+ critical vulnerabilities with Claude. But they focused on maintained software. The scarier problem is the long tail that nobody will ever patch.
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• Martin Alderson
I cloned Linear's UI and core functionality using Claude Code in about 20 prompts. Here's what that means for SaaS companies.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
A step-by-step guide to extracting your brand design system and generating on-brand PDF reports and slide decks using coding agents.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
A simple trick to keep your CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files updated using the agent's own chat logs - turning a tedious chore into a 30 second job.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Anthropic's 'legal tool' that triggered a $285bn selloff is 156KB of markdown. The panic reveals a hard truth about the future of software.
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• Martin Alderson
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
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• Martin Alderson
I used to be a TDD sceptic - too much time writing tests for features that might get deleted. Then coding agents completely changed the economics of software testing.
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• Martin Alderson
Permission systems, Docker sandboxing, and log file secrets - why current approaches to securing coding agents fall short and what we might need instead.
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• Martin Alderson
Why DRAM shortages, not capital, will define AI infrastructure growth through 2027
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Using Claude Code to port 120k lines of Pascal and 68k assembly to modern C# - and what this means for cross-platform development
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
MCP tools eat thousands of tokens. A simple CLI with instructions in your CLAUDE.md file uses 71 tokens and works brilliantly.
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• Martin Alderson
Travel agents are the classic example of an industry killed by the internet. Software engineering is facing the same disruption, but the timeline is compressed.
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• Martin Alderson
Critics are judging models trained on last-gen hardware. There's a 6x wave of compute already allocated - and it's just starting to produce results.
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• Martin Alderson
Using ASTs and AI agents to reverse engineer minified JavaScript in minutes instead of weeks
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• Martin Alderson
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
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• Martin Alderson
Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Gemini 3 Pro's design capabilities and Opus 4.5's reduced babysitting needs represent a subtle but significant leap that traditional benchmarks completely miss.
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• Martin Alderson
Using IPv6 with Cloudflare to run multiple services on a single server without a reverse proxy
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• Martin Alderson
A practical approach to managing production infrastructure using git-tracked markdown files and Claude Code for small teams
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Software engineers underestimate the scale of Excel usage. With agents now able to work directly in spreadsheets, we're looking at transforming how billions of dollars in business processes are managed.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
A non-technical CFO built a production operations dashboard with Claude Code that had failed with low-code tools and agencies. This shift in who can build software is going to change everything.
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• Martin Alderson
I built a tracker to monitor the growth of MCP servers in the wild - turns out the ecosystem is growing faster than I expected
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• Martin Alderson
Insights from MCP Dev Summit Europe on agentic discovery, client compatibility challenges, and the emerging field of agentic experience design
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• Martin Alderson
Why GitHub Actions runners are slow and how bare metal servers can make your CI/CD 2-10x faster while costing 10x less
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Google's Gemini AI Studio API has been suffering from severe reliability issues with little transparency about the problems on their status page.
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• Martin Alderson
From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.