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Tony Alicea

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JavaScript, HTML, CSS, NodeJS, UX

Software / engineering practiceAI / MLJavaScript / TypeScript

’15’20’25
Posts
21 from 11 Jan 2014 to 29 Sep 2026
Posting
monthly (6 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 5

  1. Falling In Love With the Problem, Not the Solution, Is More Important Than Ever
  2. The Evaluability Gap: Designing for Scalable Human Review of AI Output
  3. Why AI-Assisted Development Is More Exhausting Than It Should Be
  4. Trace: Declarative Modeling for the AI Age
  5. The Future of Self-Paced Online Education

2025 7

  1. We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs
  2. I've Started Offering Live Coaching.
  3. Not Agile. Not Waterfall. With AI It's Cascades.
  4. It's Not Context Engineering, It's Context Authoring
  5. Entropy Tolerance: The Essential Software Question for The AI Age
  6. Generative Rapid Prototyping (GRiP)
  7. Understanding React Server Components

2024 4

  1. Normal UI: A Usability Technique For Non-Designers
  2. How to Rewrite a Web Application
  3. Smart Jerks Aren't Worth It
  4. Understanding React Compiler

2023 1

  1. On The Why Down

2014 4

  1. How To Write Email People Will Read
  2. Simple Is Not the Opposite of Complex
  3. Key and Lock
  4. DOTW: Do One Thing Well