Stop treating Saturday coding sessions as failed SaaS attempts. Learn how to use side projects as a deliberate scouting pipeline to replace aging framework dependencies with deep, homegrown engineering expertise that actually gets you hired.
Linus Torvalds defends AI in open source, but misses the mechanical reality. As dev tools shift to autonomous pipelines, we strip away the friction stopping supply chain attacks, turning context pipes into zero-click exploits.
Most 2026 roadmaps still treat framework memorization as the primary filter. This guide maps the exact half-life of UI syntax versus system topology, delivering a concrete curriculum to build for tenure when AI agents write the boilerplate and humans debug the distributed state.
We are wasting engineering cycles building human UIs for headless background agents. Learn how to re-architect your APIs into structured context pipes using MCP.
AI agents clone CRUD MVPs in minutes, destroying the digital moat. The only side-projects left with real financial value require hardware-hacking and edge infrastructure.
Browser dashboards introduce fatal latency and state opacity that silently masks AI agent drift. Shifting to terminal-native pipelines restores deterministic control and reproducible engineering traces.