AI × BACKEND REALITY

AI can replace skills. It cannot replace thinking.

I'm Zoe, a backend engineer who turns messy goals into systems you can test. I write about AI, production backends, and feedback loops that help people move.

Senior Backend Engineer · Go / Python · AI systems & distributed systems

Read: A prompt is not a security boundary
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Start with the foundations

Start with the classics. Then decide what still holds and what needs redesigning.

  1. Old School Revisit enduring systems with new questions
  2. Classics Are Dead Do old ideas still hold in the AI era?
  3. AI Engineering Notes Build AI systems that survive production
  4. AI Flow How I work, judge, and create with AI