Khaled Garbaya - Blog

MCP discovery tells an agent how to authenticate, not what a tool does.

When your team is overloaded, don't descope by task count.

Hard limits for AI agents belong in code, not the prompt: the model reads prompt rules and breaks them.

AI made finding code issues free, but owning the fix still needs a human.

Engineering teams reward complexity by accident because simplicity leaves no artifact.

We shipped a greenfield project in three weeks by building the system around the AI models, not the prompts.

AI engineering workflows assume one expert orchestrator.

AI-assisted coding patterns that actually work, from months of experiments: two case studies — delegated testing and parallel review with Claude Code.

Build Mastra AI workflows step by step — parallel steps, branching, suspend/resume, multi-agent, and serverless deployment — with TypeScript examples.

Mastra is a TypeScript-native AI framework — typed agents and workflows, a local dev sandbox, memory, and built-in evals.

Eleventy, or 11ty, is a powerful yet straightforward static site generator.

Axios interceptors are a powerful way to manage HTTP requests.

My 2021 Mac setup for web development: a detailed list of every tool I install from scratch to handle day-to-day dev work.

My 2020 in review: welcoming our first baby and a year shipping JAMstack educational content — the highs, the lows, and lessons learned.

Gatsby vs create-react-app: both cut config, but Gatsby adds built-in performance, static rendering with no server, and a rich plugin ecosystem.

A quick intro to GraphQL, a query language and server-side runtime: define your types and fields, then write a resolver function for each.

Build a Node.js CLI tool with yargs middleware by treating commands like server routes — for cleaner, reusable command-line programs.

Proxiy Object gives you the ability to intercept access to an object properties and change its behaviour.