Forward Deployed Engineer: The New Opportunity and How to Become One
What a forward deployed engineer does, why demand is spiking, the stack to learn, and a 90-day path using the iHateReading AI Agent Developer Roadmap.
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Oct 2, 202650 React Interview Questions (Frontend Cheat Sheet for 2026)
Fifty frontend interview questions with one-line answers — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, performance, and web fundamentals. Built for developers prepping in 2026.
How to Build an AI Agent System That Researches 100 Blogs a Day (RSS, Google News, Reddit, YouTube)
A concrete walkthrough of the iHateReading research layer: RSS, Google News, Reddit, YouTube transcripts, URL hashing, LLM classification, and turning the pipeline into a content-ideas dashboard SaaS.
OpenAI DevDay 2026: What Actually Matters for Builders (Dots, Sign In, Agents)
DevDay 2026 recap for developers — Dots agent distribution, Sign in with ChatGPT, Decisions API, plugin strategy, and the trigger-decision-action loop. Builder take with iHateReading links to agents, sandbox, and SaaS.
Agent Harnessing: The Part of Building AI Agents Nobody Talks About
What is an agent harness? Same model, 30% to 95% on ARC-AGI — the loop, tools, memory, sandbox, and tracing in your code, not the weights. Harness vs framework explained.
Why our websites are slow — Importance of bundle size
JavaScript bundles dominate parse and compile time in the browser. A bottom-to-top performance checklist starts with bundle size, not image tweaks alone.
Field notes from five old-economy businesses in India — invoice OCR, lead scraping, news desks, Instagram workflows, and retail gaps — and why “automation” sells when “CRM” doesn’t.
From Finding Clients to a Smart SaaS: Building an AI Scraping Agent Dashboard
How I went from building websites with no distribution to a cheap, custom B2B lead-gen stack—scrapers, AI query agents, data enrichment, and a SaaS dashboard you can sell to clients.
AI Agents for Recruiting: How Voice-First Sourcing Is Replacing Boolean Search
AI recruiting agent in 2026: how voice-first sourcing replaces Boolean search, what runs under the hood, LL144 compliance, and how to evaluate Juicebox, hireEZ, SeekOut, and similar tools.
AI Agent Auditing & Compliance in 2026: The New SOC 2 for Autonomous Systems
AI agent compliance auditing in 2026: why operational misalignment is the new SOC 2 problem, and what the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 actually require.
How We're Keeping ihatereading.in Under $100/Month at 10k Visitors
How to reduce website hosting costs in 2026: the Vercel Fluid Compute, Cloudflare Workers, and Firebase changes that keep ihatereading.in under $100 a month at 10,000 visitors.
Python AI SDKs in 2026: OpenAI Agents SDK vs Pydantic-AI vs smolagents vs Strands
A code-first python ai agent sdk comparison: build the same three-tool agent in OpenAI Agents SDK, Pydantic-AI, smolagents, and Strands — execution models, testing, and which framework fits.
AI Voice Agents for SMB Receptionists: Vapi vs Retell vs ElevenLabs Compared
A 2026 comparison of Vapi, Retell, and ElevenLabs as an AI voice agent for business: real latency, disclosure laws, pricing, and which AI receptionist software fits appointment booking.
How a CRM-table AI content pipeline publishes 100+ researched SEO blogs a day for under $10 without tripping Google's scaled content penalty.
What is the Jev AI model? A launch-week review of TypeSafe AI's System One model, pricing, API, real use cases, limitations, and open-source rival Laya.
Jev, Explained Like You're Five (Then Like You're Actually Building With It)
What is the Jev AI model? A practical guide to TypeSafe AI's System One model, its API, pricing, decision primitives, use cases, and limitations.
B2B Agencies AI Agent for Reddit, X, LinkedIn and Google Maps (And What It Actually Costs)
How we build, deploy, monitor, and control the cost of lead-generation AI agents for B2B agencies and solo founders.
AI Operating System for SaaS Founders: The Skills, the Stack, and the Dashboard Behind It
The full AI operating system for SaaS founders — structured playbooks, the engineering stack underneath, and the dashboard that runs recurring work on a schedule.