James Anderson

Software developer passionate about building modern web and SaaS applications. I enjoy working with .NET, exploring AI tools, and turning ideas into practical products.

Dublin, Ireland Joined on Jun 4, 2026

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The courier problem of manual tab-hopping

James Anderson

Aug 26

Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

#ai #productivity #llm #webdev

8 min read

Shows why 73% of RAG failures happen upstream

James Anderson

Aug 25

The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG

#ai #llm #rag #webdev

11 min read

Readers confess painful over-engineering realities

James Anderson

Aug 24

7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)

#ai #llm #webdev #programming

8 min read

James Anderson

Aug 18

Inside the Tokenizer: Why the Same Prompt Costs Different Amounts on Every Model

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

8 min read

James Anderson

Jun 8

How I Stopped Burning Out as a Developer

#career #productivity #mentalhealth #webdev

4 min read

James Anderson

Sep 1

Building With AI When You Don't Know Architecture: A Survival Guide

#ai #beginners #webdev #programming

7 min read

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Tackling stealthy gray failures

James Anderson

Aug 31

9 Ways Your AI Agent Silently Fails (and How to Catch Each)

#ai #agents #llm #webdev

8 min read

James Anderson

Aug 30

Prompt Fluency Is the New Literacy — and Most Devs Are Winging It

#ai #productivity #career #llm

7 min read

James Anderson

Aug 29

How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

8 min read

James Anderson

Aug 23

Why LLMs Are Bad at Math, Explained Simply

#discuss #ai #llm #machinelearning

9 min read

James Anderson

Aug 22

Why LLMs Hallucinate, Explained Simply — and How to Actually Stop It

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

10 min read

James Anderson

Aug 19

Prompt Caching, Explained: How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 70-90% (With Real Math)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #webdev

6 min read

James Anderson

Aug 17

A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself

#flutter #ai #claude #designsystem

3 min read

James Anderson

Aug 16

How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood

#coding #computerscience #software #softwareengineering

6 min read

James Anderson

Jun 4

How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading)

#ai #programming #software #career

4 min read

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Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

The Retrieval Checklist I Wish I'd Had Before Shipping RAG

7 Signs You're Over-Engineering Your AI App (and How to Stop)

Inside the Tokenizer: Why the Same Prompt Costs Different Amounts on Every Model

How I Stopped Burning Out as a Developer

Building With AI When You Don't Know Architecture: A Survival Guide

Want to connect with James Anderson?

9 Ways Your AI Agent Silently Fails (and How to Catch Each)

Prompt Fluency Is the New Literacy — and Most Devs Are Winging It

How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed

Why LLMs Are Bad at Math, Explained Simply

Why LLMs Hallucinate, Explained Simply — and How to Actually Stop It

Prompt Caching, Explained: How to Cut Your LLM Bill by 70-90% (With Real Math)

A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself

How PDF & Document Parsers Actually Work Under the Hood

How AI Is Reshaping Software Development (and Where It's Heading)