AI Only Writes the "Happy Path": Why Defensive Programming is Making a Comeback AI writes the happy path. Human intuition writes the "what if the payload drops and the role is null?" path. Defensive programming is…

1️⃣ AI Only Writes the "Happy Path"
My AI assistant recently tried to grant Admin access to a null variable. 🤦‍♂️ AI optimizes for green tests, not secure defaults. Here is why paranoid, defensive programming is making a massive comeback:
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Hackers don't "break in." They just log in because we make it too easy. 🛑

As a Senior AI Engineer, I see how AI-driven tools exploit simple habits in milliseconds. 20 mistakes. 60-second fixes. 👇

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Data protection isn’t a checkbox — it’s an engineering duty.

Compliance won’t stop a breach. Encrypt sensitive data with AES‑256, keep keys in env vars, never log tokens. If someone gets your DB, encryption is your last defence.

Users trust you with their data.

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What I’ve been reading this week ending 29 March 2026 9 axioms of Interpersonal Communication — by Shreyas Doshi

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Be The Luck For Other Software Engineers - Interview With Scott Hanselman by Dev Leader Podcast Arguably the coolest thing I've been able to do in my content creation journey for software engineers to date: I got to sit down and chat with Scott Hanselman. I bet that the overwhelming majority of my audience knows Scott. It's almost impossible to be in this area of tech and not know him! If you've seen a 3d printer online you definitely know Scott. Scott is the VP of Developer Community of Microsoft -- but if you ask him, he's happy to simply say "I'm a teacher". For those of us who know him, we've all learned a great deal from him. If this is your introduction to Scott, then I'm sure you'll be hooked on his content. Thanks for being the luck that so many software engineers need, Scott. ---- You can find Scott EVERYWHERE on the Internet: - Hanselminutes Podcast: https://hanselminutes.com/ - YouTube: https://youtube.com/@shanselman - Website: https://www.hanselman.com/ - TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@shanselman - Instagram: https://instagram.com/shanselman - Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman - Twitter: https://x.com/shanselman ---- 🔑 Membership & Subscriptions: - 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weekly Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - 🏘️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Private Discord Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - 📽️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🧠 Courses: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠All Courses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Getting Started with C#⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Deep Dive C#⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Zero to Hero C# Bundle⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Refactoring For C# Devs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[FREE] Intro to Software Development⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🗣️ Social Media & Links: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠All My Links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GitHub⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube

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What is the most undervalued skill in software engineering? Depth-first search into networking, programming, web development and random tech topics by a bored software engineer.

📆 Daily Prompt [2026-03-29]: What is the most undervalued skill in software engineering?

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What is the most undervalued skill in software engineering? Depth-first search into networking, programming, web development and random tech topics by a bored software engineer.

📆 Daily Prompt [2026-03-29]: What is the most undervalued skill in software engineering?

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The Engineers Who Stopped Doing Their Jobs …and Became 10x More Valuable

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Why are executives enamored with AI but ICs aren't? | John Wang John Wang's personal website

More interesting discussion in the HN comments:

“Why Are Executives Enamored With AI But ICs Aren’t?”, John Wang (johnjwang.com/post/2026/03...).

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I Built a NumPy-Like Library in Pure JavaScript: This Is Exactly How I Did It | HackerNoon After studying the concepts and experimenting with JavaScript, I started building a small numerical utility library inspired by NumPy.

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Rust Retro: Updated Baseline Standards When it Comes to Windows Targets | HackerNoon Why did this change happen? Because Rust had Tier 1 support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 but these targets no longer meet our requirements.

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🚀 Introducing FireAPI - built for developers & startups to manage, secure, monitor, and monetize APIs, tools, and apps.

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Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture This bundle includes the books “Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture” and “The Architect’s Paradox: Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Software Architecture” by Barry M…

Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture by Barry M O’Reilly is the featured bundle on Leanpub!

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I'm in this picture, and I feel attacked.

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* Spend less time on code production, more on architecture, evals, and review
* Treat observability, rollback, and correctness as part of the product

Same game. Different scoreboard. How are you adapting to the new economics of building?
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When does a software system become hard to change?
Never suddenly. First versions are built fast. Over time: more features, more dependencies.
Small changes take longer. Developers get cautious.
It's rarely the tech. When did you notice it in your project?
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Projects don't fail because of technology. They fail because of communication. Good architecture needs clear decisions & shared understanding.
Theory is easy applying it in real conflicts is the challenge. Practice matters. How do you do it?
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AI Answers Can Come with Silent Tech Debt - prodSens.live AI answers solve the task by making decisions automatically for you. This is convenient. It’s what makes the…

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Halting Santiago airport's expansion over bad projections = dodging a fatal deploy. Devs abuse rollbacks to hide poor design. True pivoting requires building elastic infra from day one.
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Let's run the math for a tiny team of 3 devs:
Saving just 10 minutes a day per person equals 50 mins a week.
Over a year? That’s 43 hours of deep work clawed back from administrative tasks. That is more than full work weeks of pure coding time. 🤯
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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Uncensored Guide: Features, Capabilities, and Setup | HackerNoon Explore Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Uncensored, a multimodal AI model with no refusals, advanced reasoning, and support for local deployment.

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CORS is a vibe killer.

AI often suggests origin: '*' to silence errors. It “works,” but I never ship that. Opening your API to the whole web is a security hole.

I whitelist domains and handle credentials properly. Real engineering fixes root causes, not symptoms.

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How do you handle 'burnout' without quitting technology entirely? Depth-first search into networking, programming, web development and random tech topics by a bored software engineer.

📆 Daily Prompt [2026-03-28]: How do you handle 'burnout' without quitting technology entirely?

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How do you handle 'burnout' without quitting technology entirely? Depth-first search into networking, programming, web development and random tech topics by a bored software engineer.

📆 Daily Prompt [2026-03-28]: How do you handle 'burnout' without quitting technology entirely?

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How to Build Traceable AI Workflows With Retry and DLQ Visibility | HackerNoon Learn how structured tracing turns AI extraction workflows into debuggable systems with visibility into branches, retries, and failures.

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Today (day 11), I studied:

• The "strconv" package in GoLang.
• Deep Learning - Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing.
• Generative AI Foundational Models (FMs) lifecycle.
• I worked on a GoLang project.

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From Junior to Architect: Master the terms that define the elite of Software Engineering.

From Junior to Architect: Master the terms that define the elite of Software Engineering. 🚀EN

De Junior a Arquitecto: Domina los términos que definen a la élite de la Ingeniería de Software. 🚀ES

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Building Self-Healing Java Microservices: A Step-by-Step Guide | HackerNoon Learn how to design scalable, and self-healing Java microservices using GraalVM, asynchronous pipelines, circuit breakers, and event-driven architecture.

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OpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant - SiliconANGLE OpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant - SiliconANGLE

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