Yogesh Verma

Blog by Yogesh Verma

AI Didn't Lower the Bar for Code Quality. It Removed Our Excuses.

Before the AI era, functional was often the finish line.

Deadlines were aggressive. Coding was laborious. Sponsors rarely cared whether every HTTP response code was handled or every meaningful event was logged. They cared that the feature worked.

Ship it!

That mindset quietly became the norm. Not becau...

13 Oct 2026 03:07 PM - Comment(s)
RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: Two Ways to Make AI Smarter. Which One Actually Fits Your Problem?

If you've spent any time around AI systems, you've probably run into these two terms being thrown around like they're interchangeable. They're not. They solve different problems, and picking the wrong one can mean months of wasted effort (and a very confused stakeholder asking why the chatbot still ...

31 Jul 2026 10:14 PM - Comment(s)
Decoding Cloud-Native: Beyond the Buzzwords, Containers, and Kubernetes

"Cloud-native" is one of the most overused and misunderstood terms in modern software architecture.

Ask ten engineers what it means, and you'll probably hear answers like:

  • "It means using ...

28 Jul 2026 02:00 PM - Comment(s)
One Year Living with AI Coding Assistants: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Almost over a year ago, I started using AI coding assistants the way most people do; curious, a little skeptical, and mostly testing whether the hype matched reality.

Twelve months and thousands of prompts later, after using these tools across greenfield development, legacy modernization, transforma...

02 Jul 2026 08:46 PM - Comment(s)
AI Can Code. But Can It Behave? Why ATDD Is the Quality Gate Your Team Is Missing.
We are living through the most dramatic acceleration in software development history. AI pair programmers write code faster than most teams can review it. Pull requests arrive in minutes. Features ship in hours. And yet, bugs that shouldn't exist still reach production. Systems that work perfectly i...
27 Jun 2026 08:59 PM - Comment(s)