GreyNeurons Newsletter

Replacing Junior Devs with GPT-4 Turbo? I Ran the Numbers So You Don’t Have To

From token costs to capability gaps, here’s what AI gets right — and where you’ll still need real people.

Reliability is the Outcome, Observability is How You Measure and Maintain It: ‘Slow is Smooth’ is the Mindset That Enables Both.

A battle-tested mindset and checklist to build reliable, observable systems — even with a junior-heavy team and startup urgency

Minimum Viable Security, Part 1: What to Fix Before Your Product Goes Live

A developer-first guide to reducing risk with simple interventions that actually work.

LLMs Struggle with Performance, Cisco Launches Security AI, WSL Goes Open Source, and Microsoft ❤️ Postgres

Taking MySQL Offline the Easy Way: Using ignore-db-dir

A Quick and Simple Way to Take a MySQL Database Offline Without Touching the Data — Perfect for Quick Maintenance and Troubleshooting

RAG in the Real World: A Candid Q&A on Building Smarter AI Chatbots

We just wanted a chatbot. Then came RAG, routing logic, and lots of late-night debugging

Why I am switching from ChatGPT Plus to OpenRouter: A Developer’s Perspective

How OpenRouter’s flexibility, model variety, and cost-effectiveness outshine ChatGPT Plus for my AI-driven workflows

My Top 3 read articles for April 2025

What readers loved in April: safer C code, simpler LLMs, and smarter database design

Engineering by Defaults, Design, and Discipline

Git configs that make sense, PostgreSQL architecture made simple and 13 engineering laws that hit too close to home

GreyNeurons Bookmark Dispatch #4

Agile Wins, ARM Savings, Secure Open Source, and Smarter MySQL — All in One Dispatch

GreyNeurons Bookmark Dispatch #3

AI builds a Like button, Cloudflare fights back, and Code Complete still holds up.

GreyNeurons Bookmark Dispatch #2