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Practical applications of AI in software engineering, local LLMs, prompt engineering, and integrating intelligence into production systems.
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How This Website Works: A Technical Look at the Stack
Ammar Najjar · July 19, 2026 · 19 min readIn a companion article, I wrote about why I rebuilt this website with Astro and how that decision grew into a much larger project. That article was about the journey and the thinking. This one is about the outcome: how the website actually works, every layer from writing a post to it appearing in a reader's browser.
Read more →Making Angular AI Work in Real Projects
Ammar Najjar · July 13, 2026 · 6 min readAI can generate a component, write a test, or explain a compiler error. But in real applications, results depend more on project context than model capability. It doesn't understand your architecture, your conventions, or the boundaries you built over years.
Read more →Local AI on a MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM: What Actually Works
Ammar Najjar · June 14, 2026 · 9 min readRunning AI coding assistants locally sounds appealing: no API costs, your code stays on your machine, and you get a Claude Code-like experience for free. But getting it to actually work well on a 16 GB MacBook Pro M1 takes more trial and error than most guides admit.
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