https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/ Writing on AI-augmented engineering, LLM infrastructure and shipping real software. en Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:25:57 GMT https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/will-ai-replace-developers/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/will-ai-replace-developers/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI · Opinion The honest answer from someone who ships with AI every day — it replaces the typing, not the judgment. Here's who's actually at risk, and who gets more valuable. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/is-ai-dangerous-or-misunderstood/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/is-ai-dangerous-or-misunderstood/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI · Opinion The scary robot on the news and the tool I use every day are not the same thing. A builder's honest, non-hype take on where AI actually helps, where it actually harms, and what to watch. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/vibe-coding-vs-production/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/vibe-coding-vs-production/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI · Opinion Prompting until it works is a great way to learn and prototype, and a dangerous way to ship. Where "vibe coding" earns its place, where it quietly bites, and how to graduate a vibe-coded prototype into something real. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/auditing-ai-written-code/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/auditing-ai-written-code/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI · Workflow I ship as an AI-augmented solo builder, but I never trust what the model produces. Here's the review discipline that caught a missing Android permission in every earlier release build. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/payments-native-qris/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/payments-native-qris/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Payments Cards are the wrong default for the Indonesian market. Here's how I make apps take money natively with QRIS — and why verification has to happen on the server, never the client. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/one-key-five-llms/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/one-key-five-llms/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Why I put a single billing-and-routing layer in front of Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and Kimi — and what an OpenAI-compatible API buys you for the Indonesian market. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/shipping-on-the-edge/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/shipping-on-the-edge/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Infrastructure No servers to patch, no region to pick, and a bill that rounds to zero at low traffic. How I run real products — a dealership CMS, a temp-mail service, this very site — on Cloudflare's edge. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/payroll-twice-on-purpose/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/payroll-twice-on-purpose/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering CoalTrack computes statutory payroll on the server in PHP and again on the handset in Dart. Duplicating the logic sounds wrong — here's why it's the safest thing I did. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/access-control-in-the-database/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/access-control-in-the-database/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Security Hiding a button is not security. How I enforce who-can-see-what with Postgres row-level security — and back it with an audit trail the app is not allowed to rewrite. https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/debloat-android-no-root/ https://ksatriabintangsamudra.com/blog/debloat-android-no-root/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Android A no-root, fully reversible debloat toolkit over wireless ADB, with real before/after numbers from a vivo V21. No placebo "boosters" — measured frames.