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Latest — 11 Mar 2025

Building Agentic Workflows with Mastra: A Tale of Autonomy and Self-Writing Interfaces

The lights in our office were almost all out, except for the one above my desk. It was 2 AM, and I was staring at my screen, watching something that felt like magic unfold before my eyes. Our UI was literally building itself. 0:00 /1:37 1× When Our

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The Lost Art Of Design Thinking in the Age of AI

An engineering lead observes how reliance on AI is eroding fundamental design thinking skills. When developers can't explain trade-offs or edge cases in their AI-generated solutions, it's time to restore the balance: use AI as a partner, not an oracle, and reignite deep problem understanding.

Taming LLM Responses with Instaparse

It started with a simple goal: integrate an LLM model. Little did I know this would lead us down a rabbit hole for parsing challenges that would fundamentally change how we handle LLM outputs. The Promise and the Pain Like many developers, our journey began with a straightforward vision: use

Breaking Barriers: Building a Turing-Complete No-Code Platform

From repetitive code to a revelation about Excel's hidden powers - this is a story of rethinking what no-code can be. Dive into how we're building an AI-powered no-code platform that doesn't just automate common workflows, but handles the edge cases that usually send developers back to their IDEs.

12 Startups in 12 Months to 12 Lessons in 12 Days

We started 2025 with an audacious goal: building 12 startups in 12 months. But our first project with Vade Studio quickly turned those plans into 12 humbling lessons. Here's what we learned about product development, technical debt, and why sometimes you need to slow down to speed up.

Stop Making JavaScript Do Everything - Vade Studio's Secret to Fast Web Pages

From embarrassing 30s to consistent 90s on Lighthouse - this is the story of performance optimization gone wrong, then right. What started as a typical modern web stack became a journey of unlearning, where an accidental JavaScript-free deploy revealed that sometimes less is more.

Walking The Talk: 12 Startups In 12 Months Using Vade Studio

A skeptical developer takes on an audacious challenge: building 12 startups in 12 months using his own no-code platform. No marketing fluff, no empty promises – just a transparent journey to prove what's really possible when AI meets no-code development.

Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade Studio in Clojure

A server crash during a Valentine's date became the turning point. The pursuit of technical complexity was costing more than just code - it was costing life itself. This is a story of how three developers built an ambitious no-code platform using Clojure.

Rethinking App Development: Our Vision for the Next Generation of Builders

Traditional development is slow. The no-code space is fragmented. AI-generated apps are hard to iterate over. So, what comes next? Let's navigate the modern product development maze.