AI Video Generation in 2025 — Models, Costs, and How to Build a Cost-Effective Pipeline
A guide to AI video models — Sora, Veo 2, Kling, Runway, Pika — per-second pricing, quality tradeoffs, and pipelines that cut costs by 80%.
The Archive of
Intentional Thought
Technical essays, architectural deep-dives, and practical guides at the intersection of code and design.
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AI Models in 2025 — Cost, Capabilities, and Which One to Use
A comparison of AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, and DeepSeek — pricing, capabilities, and the best fit per use case.
AI Image Generation in 2025 — Models, Costs, and How to Optimize Spend
A guide to AI image generation models — DALL-E 3, Imagen 3, Stable Diffusion, FLUX, Midjourney — pricing, quality, and how to cut costs 10-20x.
AI Coding Assistants in 2025 — Every Tool Compared, and Which One to Actually Use
A deep comparison of AI coding assistants — Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Aider, Windsurf, and more — features, pricing, and which wins per workflow.
AI Agents Demystified — It's Just Automation With a Better Brain
A no-hype take on AI agents: the same automation patterns we've built for decades, except the if/else decision engine is replaced by an LLM.
Security Ticketing and Incident Response
Build an effective security incident response process — incident classification, runbooks, ticketing workflows, and post-incident reviews.
Supply Chain Security — Protecting Your Software Pipeline
A guide to software supply chain security — the SLSA framework, dependency pinning, provenance verification, and lessons from the xz attack.
Security Mindset for Engineers — Think Like an Attacker
How to adopt a security-first mindset as a software engineer — threat modeling, attack surfaces, defense in depth, and least privilege.
Secrets Management — Vault, SSM, and Secrets Manager
A practical guide to secrets management in the cloud — comparing HashiCorp Vault, AWS SSM, and Secrets Manager, with rotation strategies.
Penetration Testing Basics for Developers
A developer-friendly intro to penetration testing — reconnaissance, common attack vectors, tools like Burp Suite and OWASP ZAP, and test cases.
OWASP Top 10 for Cloud Applications
The OWASP Top 10 through the lens of cloud-native apps — how each vulnerability manifests in AWS/GCP/Azure, with serverless-specific defenses.
Dependency Vulnerability Detection at Scale
How to detect and manage vulnerable dependencies across hundreds of repos — SCA tools, SBOM generation, and automated remediation pipelines.