Thomas Hansen articles - 250 total
Smoking Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI on their home turf
If I asked you about who's got the best AI in the world, you'd probably answer Google, Anthropic, or...
How to become Over Employed
On my YouTube channel I've got about 100+ videos proving how your current software development tools...
Using GoLang Might be Illegal
In your employment contract there's probably a section that says "the employee should pick the best...
Unit Testing is the *REASON* why your Code Sux and has Bugs
Our industry is full of assumptions. The most dangerous assumption is the belief in that we need unit...
Proof of that OOP is "Applied Brain Damage"!
I went to ChatGPT and I asked it the following question ... Create C# code that encapsulates a C#...
Magic Cloud, the Open Source Alternative to Firebase
If you're an experienced software developer you probably realise I stole the above slogan from...
Super Massively Distributed Systems
With a message broker you can transmit JSON dynamically to different clients, resulting in "an event...
Micro Service Madness
Micro services is the false belief in that by adding a message broker to your app, it will somehow...
Implement Open API Specification using AI
Open API is a standard for documenting APIs. Its most famous implementation for .Net is probably...
The Inevitable Collapse of AI Code Generators
According to GitHub, there are roughly 500 actively used programming languages on earth. If you check...
AI Agents Creating AI Agents
Today I spent a couple of hours creating a new plugin for Magic Cloud. The plugin I created today is...
Vibe Coding Saturday
There are tons of really great vibe coding tools out there; Manus AI, Cursor AI, and dozens of...
Magic Cloud is Open Source
Today we released Magic as Open Source, under the terms of the MIT license. The MIT license is the...
Is "Vibe Coding" Working?
We just launched an AI backend code generator. We had to because there's simply no existing LLM out...
No-Code AI Backend API Generator
A couple of days ago we released an API and backend code generator, allowing you to create APIs and...
I Taught OpenAI a New Programming Language - Fine Tuning
It took a month, and we had to create 80,000 lines of "throw away code", but we pulled it through. We...
Creating an AI Agent-based CRM system in 7 minutes
In the following video I start out with nothing. 7 minutes later I end up with a complete CRM system,...
Create a CRUD AI Agent in 5 Seconds
If Satya Nadella is right, and SaaS indeed is Dead, and AI Agents will replace all existing SaaS...
AI Killed Software Development as we Know It
AI killed software development, and I don't mean that AI will generate your code. Quite the contrary,...
10x Software Development for 10% of the Cost
There are few things in this world that are more expensive than hiring software developers. However,...
Not Invented Here Syndrome
We're really good at creating AI agents and AI chatbots. The reason is because we've got Magic Cloud...
How to Create an AI Agent for NetSuite
NetSuite is one of the largest, most complex, and most expensive software systems on the planet....
How to wrap your SQL Database Inside an AI Agent
Creating an AI Agent that can access your SQL database is very easy with Magic, regardless of what...
Why ChatGPT Search is Better than Google
I don't know how ChatGPT Search works, but having built a similar search engine myself, I feel...
Stop Coding! Code is Debt!
I once had a manager who wanted me to maintain a project with 1.5 million lines of code. I begged him...
Stop using Git for Everything
When you use Git you've got to maintain multiple environments. Even if you simplify it down to its...
Unit Testing is Mostly Useless
I've worked as an enterprise software developer for 25 years. 98% of the code I was creating and...
Put your SQL Straight into your Endpoint
For 50 years we've accumulated thousands of so called "software development best practices". One of...
Saving Straight to Production
I'm a solo entrepreneur. I create custom AI solutions for my clients. I manage about 30 clients in...
What is Software Development?
Most software developers will laugh from the title of this article and claim they already know what...