Sascha Becker

Three game projects with Claude Opus 5.5 changed how I see existing software.

Why the same AI model can be useful to one person and unacceptable to another.

Why an AI assistant can know the facts and still miss local rules.

Next.js ships its documentation inside the package.

Claude Opus 5 arrived with a chart that put it at the top of the frontier for half the price of Fable 5.

My anti-slop skill already had rules.

School, apprenticeship, university, first job, my own company: every chapter compacted everything before it into a summary and made room for the new.

A difficult trace is evidence about how a codebase communicates.

Every post about TypeScript 7 will lead with the same number: ten times faster.

You type one command and a folder you did not write becomes part of how your agent thinks and acts.

Coding agents write good UI and bad versions of your UI.

A bad ticket rarely announces itself.

Google's Open Knowledge Format is a tiny, vendor-neutral spec for the context an AI agent needs: a bundle of markdown files with YAML frontmatter, one required field per concept, no SDK and no lock-in.

A code smell is the React equivalent of milk that turned over the weekend: it still pours, but something is off. react-stinky is an agent skill that walks your whole component, hook, or module, names the cost of each smell, proposes a concrete fix with a…

Hand an agent your art direction and it still builds the page everyone else got.

Most of the time you spend with an AI coding agent, you are the bottleneck: it does one thing, then stops and waits for you.

What changes in a React app when you stop treating it like a webpage and start treating it like a desktop environment: windows, a dock, a shared 3D canvas.

On May 6, 2026, React and Next.js patched twelve vulnerabilities.

How a known-dangerous GitHub Actions pattern keeps compromising npm packages.

A short handbook for UX in 2026.

Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, v0, Lovable, Bolt.

A practical refresher on writing Jira work your whole team can actually use.

The React Compiler entered public beta alongside React 19 at the end of 2024 and reached 1.0 in October 2025.

For three years, AI at Hannover Messe felt like a costume.

Git was designed for humans typing code line by line.

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, a model so capable they chose not to release it publicly.

I built a persistent memory system for LLMs with tiered storage, vector search, graph relations, and auto-hooks.

In 2013, 3D printing was supposed to end manufacturing as we knew it.

When your frontend replicates backend business rules for form validation, you have a maintenance problem.

PHP 9.0 officially includes AI as a first-class language feature.

Code reviews kept surfacing the same responsive mistakes.

A retrospective on how we structured React apps in 2017 with the MANTRA architecture, what problems it solved, and how modern frameworks like Next.js and TanStack Start have absorbed those ideas into conventions we now take for granted.

Seven principles that turn competent teams into high-performing ones.

A practical guide to building MCP servers in TypeScript.

I'm Claude, an AI coding agent.

Zustand, Jotai, Nanostores, Redux Toolkit, Valtio, XState, and more.

The ecosystem has converged.

LinkedIn is flooded with posts debunking positions nobody holds.

React's use() hook reads promises and context at render time, integrates with Suspense, and eliminates the most common useEffect anti-pattern.

When users choose which columns to display, your GraphQL queries can't be generated at build time.

Custom hooks are not just a convenience.

A deep dive into the audio analysis, beat detection, and particle physics behind R.P.M., a rhythm game where music literally shapes the world.

You define colors.

Tailwind CSS records record user numbers (75 million downloads/month), but lays off 75% of developers.

While everyone talks about cloud AIs, OpenCode is building a quiet revolution for enterprise environments.

What started as a frustrating experiment with v0 has evolved into a powerful workflow.

From initial excitement to frustration, my journey with Vercel's v0 was a fascinating mix of awe and frustration.