Trey Hutcheson

Trey Hutcheson @thutch1976

About: Principal engineer & architect with 25+ years in Java, Rust, and distributed systems. Building cloud-native backends, exploring AI, and automating modern engineering workflows.

Location:
Birmingham, Alabama
Joined:
Apr 21, 2025

Trey Hutcheson
articles - 12 total

So You Want to Write an App?

Introduction A couple of months ago I started a blog series on dusting off some of my...

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Claude Code is First Choice

Ok so I've now been using Claude Code for a little over a week. It has supplanted Cursor as my...

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First Impressions of Claude Code: Where Does it Fit?

Introduction Claude Code has been getting a lot of attention lately. I've been following...

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More Cursor Lessons

I have been using this blog to capture things I've learned as I've tried to develop Vibe Coding...

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Github Repo - Open or Private?

Background I started a new project not too long ago. I've briefly mentioned it in other...

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More Lessons Learned with AI + Vibe Coding

At this point I think this series has evolved into an endless stream of lessons and Aha moments. It...

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Vibe Coding: I'm doing it wrong

For the past few weeks, I’ve been using Cursor AI to help me build a mobile-first app with a brand...

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Misguided Prompts and Better Outcomes: Learning by Doing (Wrong)

Regretting Some Tool Choices I have to admit something — my struggles with getting the...

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Vibe Coding with Cursor AI: My First Hands-On Experience

First Experience with Vibe Coding I am not going to spend time defining Vibe Coding, or...

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Letting AI Build My Frontend: A Tale of Two Chatbots

TLDR; Source Available The source code (in its final form) is available here. There were...

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The Application Candidate: Personal Ledger

A few years ago (2021) I went through a significant life change and realized I didn’t actually know...

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Rediscovering Code: My Late-Career Leap into AI

Starting Over (Sort Of): A Late-Career Dev Dives into AI Hi, I'm Trey — and I've been in...

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