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Victor Benavides
Lines of thoughts for the devs who love to share…
fullstack dev, backend at heart — writing about architecture, trade-offs, and lessons learned the hard way.
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I Rebuilt This Blog in One Afternoon with an AI Pair. Here's What It Couldn't Do.
Ten months of silence, one afternoon of work: how this blog left Squarespace for a stack I own — and an honest accounting of what the AI did versus what still needed me.
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Overengineering: Future-Proofing, Ego, or Just a Way to Learn?
I knowingly built 25 microservices for a prototype that could have been a monolith. Here's why I'd do it again — and when you shouldn't.
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gRPC vs REST: Debugging, Observability, and the Reality of Adoption
REST feels like home because you can debug it with a browser tab. gRPC is better on paper — so why does adoption still hurt?
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The Love-Hate Reality of Coding Interviews: Why Speed Is Winning Over Quality
Binary trees, imaginary message queues, and no autocomplete: what coding interviews measure versus what the job actually is.
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Speed vs. Clean Code: Lessons from C# and JavaScript/TypeScript
Ship it today or make it maintainable tomorrow? How the language you work in quietly pushes you to one side of the trade-off.
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