Platforms and developers
You can predict what a platform will neglect from how it earns.
- Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developersTwo platforms, two theories of the web: Vercel optimizes for the developer at build time, Cloudflare for the request at runtime. I compared their pricing, edge runtimes, and platform boundaries to see where each one wins.
- DevEx of Claude CodeClaude Code nails developer experience in ways most people can't articulate. But I'm starting to see a familiar pattern emerge - the same one that's killed great devtools before. Here's what I'm watching for.
- The MCP anti-patternConverting an OpenAPI spec into tools gives an agent more endpoints to juggle. Start with the user's job and design the tool around that workflow.