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Taj Pelc

The strategic developer's daily

Real-world insights on tech decisions, adopting AI dev tools, and engineering leadership from a CTO. Daily.


Hi, I’m Taj Pelc. Building for the web and leading engineering teams for 15+ years.

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Apr 03

Postgres insights with MCP

If you are a developer, getting an answer from the data is easy. You just connect to your SQL database, write a query, and a few minutes later, you have your answers. Marketing and product on the other hand are always hungry for numbers and insights into user behavior and metrics, but they don't have access. And if they have access, they usually can't write their own SQL queries. For years, this information disparity has been a cause for constant friction. The dev team never has time for...

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Feb 12

The downside of adopting AI

Feb 11

Someone always tests

Feb 08

Playing around with Gemini 2.0

Feb 01

A case for simplicity in the AI-age

Jan 31

The command line renaissance ~/ > |

Jan 29

Here's my favorite tools for running LLMs locally

Jan 28

Designing the team as much as the system

Jan 27

Bursting the AI bubble: DeepSeek R1

Jan 25

Automate everything

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