Angelo Lima - Web Dev & AI

Will AI Replace Developers? A Critical Analysis of Promises and Limitations

Deconstructing the prevailing narrative on AGI and the replacement of developers by artificial intelligence

By Angelo Lima • December 31, 2025

Panic is palpable on social media. Every new demo of a generative AI model triggers a wave of catastrophic predictions: “It’s the end for developers”, “AGI is coming in 2 years”, “A team of 6 developers replaced by just one with AI”. These claims deserve rigorous analysis, far from the...

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Case Study: Prelude of the Chambered Reborn

Day 20 - How I converted a Java game to TypeScript in one evening

By Angelo Lima • December 30, 2025

To conclude this series, what better than a concrete experience report? Here’s how I used Claude Code to convert Prelude of the Chambered, Notch’s game (Minecraft creator), from Java to TypeScript — in a single evening.

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Claude Code vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

Day 19 - Comparison of AI assistants for developers

By Angelo Lima • December 29, 2025

The AI assistant market for developers is exploding. Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot are the three major solutions. Which one to choose? Let’s compare objectively.

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Status Line and Terminal Customization

Day 18 - Configure Claude Code display

By Angelo Lima • December 28, 2025

Claude Code runs in your terminal. Did you know you can customize its appearance and behavior? Let’s see how to adapt the interface to your preferences.

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Claude Code Troubleshooting

Day 17 - Solving common problems

By Angelo Lima • December 27, 2025

Claude Code is robust, but problems can occur. Here’s a complete guide to diagnose and solve the most common errors.

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Claude Code Billing and Cost Optimization

Day 16 - Understanding and mastering your consumption

By Angelo Lima • December 26, 2025

Claude Code is powerful, but it consumes tokens. Understanding billing helps optimize your costs. Let’s see how to monitor and master your budget.

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CI/CD and Headless Mode with Claude Code

Day 15 - Automate your pipelines with AI

By Angelo Lima • December 25, 2025

Claude Code isn’t limited to interactive use. With headless mode, you can integrate it into your CI/CD pipelines. Let’s see how to automate intelligently.

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Claude Code in VS Code and JetBrains

Day 14 - The graphical experience in your favorite IDEs

By Angelo Lima • December 24, 2025

So far, we’ve used Claude Code in the terminal. But there are also extensions for VS Code and JetBrains. Let’s see how to leverage the graphical interface.

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MCP: Connecting Claude Code to Your Tools

Day 13 - Integrate GitHub, Jira, databases, and more

By Angelo Lima • December 23, 2025

I’ve already explored the MCP protocol in my article Model Context Protocol (MCP): Revolution in LLM Integration. Today, we’ll see how to use it concretely in Claude Code.

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Hooks: Automating Event Reactions

Day 12 - Trigger automatic actions in Claude Code

By Angelo Lima • December 22, 2025

Hooks allow you to execute automatic actions in response to Claude Code events. They’re the bridge between Claude and your development tools. Today, we’ll see how to use and create them.

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Claude Code Plugins and Marketplace

Day 11 - Extend Claude Code with the community ecosystem

By Angelo Lima • December 21, 2025

We’ve seen how to create slash commands, subagents, and skills individually. Plugins allow you to package them together and share them. Today, we explore the Claude Code plugin ecosystem.

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Skills: Model-Invoked Automation

Day 10 - Capabilities Claude activates automatically

By Angelo Lima • December 20, 2025

Yesterday, we saw subagents that you explicitly invoke with @. Today, we discover Skills: capabilities that Claude activates automatically based on the context of your request.

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Subagents: Delegating Intelligently

Day 9 - Create specialized agents for complex tasks

By Angelo Lima • December 19, 2025

Slash commands automate workflows. Subagents go further: they’re specialized AI agents with their own context, instructions, and tools. Today, we’ll learn to use and create them.

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Creating Custom Slash Commands

Day 8 - Automate your recurring workflows

By Angelo Lima • December 18, 2025

Built-in slash commands are useful, but the real power comes from custom commands. Today, we’ll create our own commands to automate recurring workflows.

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Permissions and Security in Claude Code

Day 7 - Protect your sensitive files and control actions

By Angelo Lima • December 17, 2025

Claude Code has access to your file system and can execute bash commands. It’s powerful, but requires safeguards. Today, we’ll see how to secure your environment.

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Git Workflows: Commits, PRs, and Checkpoints

Day 6 - Collaborate effectively with Claude Code and Git

By Angelo Lima • December 16, 2025

Claude Code integrates natively with Git. Today, we’ll explore how to use this integration for professional development workflows.

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Context and Memory Management in Claude Code

Day 5 - Optimize long sessions and preserve your preferences

By Angelo Lima • December 15, 2025

A Claude Code session can last hours. But the longer the conversation, the heavier the context becomes. Today, we’ll see how to effectively manage memory and context for productive sessions.

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Prompt Engineering for Claude Code

Day 4 - Techniques to get exactly what you want

By Angelo Lima • December 14, 2025

You now master the Explore → Plan → Code → Test workflow. But the quality of results depends enormously on how you formulate your requests. Today, we’ll cover prompt engineering techniques specific to Claude Code.

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The Explore → Plan → Code → Test Workflow

Day 3 - The methodology that distinguishes senior developers

By Angelo Lima • December 13, 2025

In my article about the state of AI in development in 2025, I mentioned the “almost correct” code syndrome: 45% of developers spend more time debugging AI code than writing it themselves.

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Claude Code Secret Syntax: #@/!

Day 2 - The shortcuts 95% of developers don't know

By Angelo Lima • December 12, 2025

Yesterday, we installed Claude Code and discovered the basic commands. Today, we level up with the secret syntax: four symbols that transform how you interact with Claude.

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Claude Code: Installation and First Steps

Day 1 - Discover the AI assistant that will transform your coding

By Angelo Lima • December 11, 2025

Welcome to this 20-article series to master Claude Code! Each day, we’ll explore a feature that will make you a more efficient developer. Today: installation and first steps.

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Prelude of the Chambered Reborn: Rewriting a Classic in TypeScript

Bringing Notch's Ludum Dare game to the modern web with Vite and software rendering

By Angelo Lima • November 29, 2025

In 2011, Markus Persson (Notch), the creator of Minecraft, participated in Ludum Dare 21 with a small retro dungeon-crawler: Prelude of the Chambered. A raycasting engine à la Wolfenstein 3D, pixelated graphics, puzzles and bosses. A technical gem compressed into 48 hours of game jam.

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GBTS: GameBoy Development with TypeScript and AI

An AI transpiler for GameBoy game development in TypeScript

By Angelo Lima • August 30, 2025

Developing GameBoy games in 2025 is a fascinating challenge that blends nostalgia with extreme technical constraints. But what if we could use TypeScript — with all its modern power and features — to create retro games? This is exactly the problem I wanted to solve with GBTS (GameBoy TypeScript).

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Auth0 International Email Generator: CLI for Multilingual Templates

TypeScript tool to automatically generate Auth0 email internationalization i18n templates

By Angelo Lima • August 28, 2025

Auth0 Email Internationalization: The Challenge of Multilingual Templates

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Sam Altman's AI Bubble Statements: Market Impact and Sectoral Analysis

OpenAI CEO's admission of speculative bubble causes major tech stock declines

By Angelo Lima • August 21, 2025

The technology world was shaken this week by the explosive statements from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who openly admitted that the artificial intelligence industry is experiencing a major speculative bubble period.

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OpenAI gpt-oss on Ollama: When Proprietary Models Go Open Source

OpenAI just announced its first open weight models available on Ollama. A collaboration marking a turning point in the local LLMs ecosystem.

By Angelo Lima • August 6, 2025

OpenAI gpt-oss on Ollama: When Proprietary Models Go Open Source

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AI and Development: Between Promises and Realities - A 2025 State of Affairs

Critical analysis of AI tools for developers: between promised revolution and field realities

By Angelo Lima • August 3, 2025

The “Falkland Law”, formulated by psychologist Robert Falkland, states a simple principle: if everything works well, why force change? This rule, based on observation of corporate behaviors, reminds us to weigh costs before changing just for the sake of change.

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Model Context Protocol (MCP): Revolution in LLM Integration with Third-Party Systems

Discover how MCP facilitates language model interaction with Atlassian tools and other connected systems

By Angelo Lima • May 12, 2025

What is the MCP Protocol?

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SQL Assistant AI: Natural Language to SQL Automatic Conversion

An open-source tool to generate SQL queries in natural language and interact with your database

By Angelo Lima • February 23, 2025

SQL Assistant AI: Natural Language to SQL Automatic Conversion

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AI Ecological Impact: Training vs Inference Environmental Costs

Deciphering artificial intelligence's carbon footprint and exploring sustainable paths

By Angelo Lima • February 3, 2025

AI Ecological Impact: Analysis of Training vs Inference Energy Costs

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LLM Jailbreaking: Security Analysis of Bypass Mechanisms

Techniques, discoveries, and ethics around bypassing censorship in language models

By Angelo Lima • January 29, 2025

Analysis of Bypass Vulnerabilities in DeepSeek R1

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Robust Web Development: Applying NASA Methodologies for Critical Applications

Between theoretical limitations and minimalist practices, create robust web applications

By Angelo Lima • January 28, 2025

Robust Web Development: Applying NASA Methodologies for Critical Applications

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Web 3.0 and Blockchain: Technical Analysis of a Decentralized Revolution

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and now Web 3.0?

By Angelo Lima • January 24, 2025

Understanding Web 3.0: A Digital Revolution

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Bun in 2025: Critical Evaluation of an Alternative JavaScript Runtime

How Bun can position itself as a strategic tool to simplify and accelerate modern JavaScript workflows in Digital Factories

By Angelo Lima • January 22, 2025

Bun in 2025: Critical Evaluation of an Alternative JavaScript Runtime

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Meta Abandons Fact-Checking: Impact on Digital Platform Governance

When truth becomes optional: Focus on Meta, Texas, and what it means for France and the rest of the world

By Angelo Lima • January 17, 2025

Meta Abandons Fact-Checking: Analysis of Informational Governance Transformations

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Dunning-Kruger Effect in Development: Cognitive Psychology Applied to Tech Teams

Decoding a cognitive bias that affects everyone, from tech to daily life

By Angelo Lima • January 17, 2025

Dunning-Kruger Effect in Development: Cognitive Analysis of Technical Competencies

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Feature-Sliced Design: The Key to Scalable Frontend Architecture

A modern approach to organizing your complex frontend projects

By Angelo Lima • January 14, 2025

Feature-Sliced Design: A Modern and Methodical Frontend Architecture

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JSON Resume: Standardized CV Format for Developers and Automation

An elegant and flexible open-source format to manage your career

By Angelo Lima • January 10, 2025

JSON Resume: Structured Approach to Professional Document Management

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2024 Retrospective: AI Evolution, Web Development and Tech Perspectives for 2025

Looking back at a year full of personal and professional advances, and a look towards the challenges of 2025

By Angelo Lima • January 3, 2025

2024 Retrospective: Analysis and Technological Prospects for 2025

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Ollama and Open WebUI: Local LLM Deployment with Docker

Self-hosted architecture for generative AI: configuration, optimization, and use cases

By Angelo Lima • January 2, 2025

Local inference architecture: challenges and technical solutions

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Best-of-N Jailbreaking: Vulnerability Analysis by Repeated Attacks on LLMs

Understanding how this method exploiting prompt variations challenges our artificial intelligences

By Angelo Lima • January 2, 2025

Best-of-N Jailbreaking: Vulnerability Analysis by Brute Force on LLMs

AI Security

NVIDIA NIM: Deploying AI Models in Containerized Microservices

Cloud-native architecture for high-performance AI inference in enterprise

By Angelo Lima • December 27, 2024

Microservices Architecture for AI Inference: Revolutionizing Deployment

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Conventional Comments: Improving Code Reviews through Standardization

Because code reviews are better when everyone speaks the same language

By Angelo Lima • December 25, 2024

Review Comment Standardization: Optimizing Technical Communication

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Conventional Commits: Standardizing Git Messages for Optimized Collaboration

Making your Git readable and avoiding driving your team crazy

By Angelo Lima • December 24, 2024

Commit Message Standardization: A Readability Challenge

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Introduction: Franco-Portuguese Developer Specialized in AI and Web Development

Why I created this blog and what you'll find here

By Angelo Lima • December 23, 2024

Introduction: Franco-Portuguese Developer Specialized in AI and Web Development

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