Archive - Nik Malykhin

Can We Skip TDD with Modern AI? A Context Experiment

Dec 9, 2025 • Nik

November 2025

Does "Extract Method" Actually Hurt Your Readability?

We’ve all been there.

Nov 25, 2025 • Nik

Does AI Need Clear Goals? My Experiment in Turning Vague Ideas into Code

We’re all told the same thing: AI needs clear, specific, and context-rich prompts to be useful.

Nov 11, 2025 • Nik

October 2025

What If the ‘Cleanest’ Code Is the Wrong Solution?

In our continuing experiment with Trio Programming—two engineers and an AI—we decided to level up.

Oct 28, 2025 • Nik and Javi lopez

Does an AI Teammate Mean You Write Less Code?

We embarked on an experiment called Trio Programming: two engineers and an AI assistant building software together.

Oct 14, 2025 • Nik and Javi lopez

September 2025

From Buzzword to Practical Tool: A Developer's Guide to Generative AI

It seems like every week there’s a new AI tool that promises to change everything.

Sep 29, 2025 • Nik

Jules, My AI Junior Developer

Here’s a question that emerged from my recent work with AI coding agents: to get better, more autonomous results, do you need to treat the AI less like…

Sep 15, 2025 • Nik

August 2025

Does More Powerful AI Mean Slower Fixes?

Is it possible that our most advanced AI coding assistants are actually slowing us down?

Aug 26, 2025 • Nik

The Context Window Paradox: To Get More From Your AI, Give It Less

When I started working with LLMs that have massive, million-token context windows, I fell into a trap.

Aug 18, 2025 • Nik

July 2025

Can We Make AI Code Assistants Smarter by Asking Them to Write Their Own Rules?

It seems logical, doesn't it?

Jul 30, 2025 • Nik

Pair-Authoring with an AI: A Case Study in Structured Collaboration

Moving beyond simple text generation to a collaborative partnership with a Large Language Model.

Jul 10, 2025 • Nik

Can We Think Less with AI?

A reflection on AI-assisted software development and the myth of effortless coding

Jul 3, 2025 • Nik

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