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The enterprise story is what this does to cost and data residency.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pentesting is becoming a pipeline stage</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/pentesting-becomes-a-pipeline-stage/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/pentesting-becomes-a-pipeline-stage/</guid><description>Strix, an open source AI pentest agent, is trending. The interesting question for enterprises is not the tooling, it is who approves what the agent attacks.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seedance 2.5 and what native 30-second video does to media cost structures</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/seedance-2-5-video-gen-media-cost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/seedance-2-5-video-gen-media-cost/</guid><description>ByteDance&apos;s new video model generates 30-second 4K clips in one pass with up to 50 reference inputs. 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The signal is that agent capability is becoming a managed artifact, like code.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Build Agentic Preview Environments on Your Own VPS</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/build-agentic-preview-environments-on-your-own-vps-1783846127079/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/build-agentic-preview-environments-on-your-own-vps-1783846127079/</guid><description>Build isolated pull request previews on your VPS with Dokploy, PostgreSQL, dedicated workers, safe credentials, tests, and automatic cleanup.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Build a Safe Agentic Software Pipeline</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/how-to-build-a-safe-agentic-software-pipeline-1783842741758/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/how-to-build-a-safe-agentic-software-pipeline-1783842741758/</guid><description>Build an agentic delivery pipeline where every pull request gets isolated code, data, workflows, tests, and a live Preview URL.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop Overengineering Your App From Day One</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/stop-overengineering-your-app-from-day-one-1773009394626/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/stop-overengineering-your-app-from-day-one-1773009394626/</guid><description>A cheap VPS can handle more traffic than most teams expect. Avoid premature complexity, tune the basics, and scale only when evidence demands it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Do You Really Need a CMS in 2026?</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/do-you-really-need-a-cms-in-2026-1771356956270/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/do-you-really-need-a-cms-in-2026-1771356956270/</guid><description>Rethink CMS defaults: start with a typed ORM schema, generate admin UIs with AI, and reserve full CMS platforms for real governance needs.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Make Product Decisions Faster With Trusted Metrics</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/how-to-make-product-decisions-faster-with-trusted-metrics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/how-to-make-product-decisions-faster-with-trusted-metrics/</guid><description>Cut decision time by design: learn how analytics becomes a product, build a 10 to 30 metric spine, and set data SLAs so teams trust numbers and move fast.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Is Quietly Changing How You Should Pick a Tech Stack</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/ai-is-quietly-changing-how-you-should-pick-a-tech-stack-1770476121041/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/ai-is-quietly-changing-how-you-should-pick-a-tech-stack-1770476121041/</guid><description>Tech stack choices now include an AI factor: training data, ecosystem maturity, and how reliably AI can help you ship and maintain code.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How I built this site... or should I say guided my agents to build it?</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/how-i-built-this-site-1770452130441/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/how-i-built-this-site-1770452130441/</guid><description>Discover how to build a fast, database-driven site with a static shell and cache-driven fragments using Next.js, Cache Components, and AI-assisted workflows.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PM, Dev, QA Are Merging: Meet the Rise of the Product Engineer</title><link>https://adibkadir.com/blog/pm-dev-qa-are-merging-meet-the-rise-of-the-product-engineer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adibkadir.com/blog/pm-dev-qa-are-merging-meet-the-rise-of-the-product-engineer/</guid><description>Uncover how AI merges PM, dev, and QA into a single product engineer. 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