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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Even Know What To Build Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UIs with buttons and charts are not cool anymore. Haven&#8217;t you heard? All that matters is AI agents now. APIs, CLIs and MCPs &#8211; that&#8217;s all you need. It&#8217;s all about the data. Just get me the data, bro. Where is your MCP? AI can make charts and tables for me. I don&#8217;t need your... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/i-dont-even-know-what-to-build-anymore/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Using AI Begets Using Even More AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI use has a built-in viral loop. Using AI for some tasks makes you want to use even more AI for other tasks. I have ever experienced a technology like this before where even using it a little bit instantly makes you want to use it more, for everything. It&#8217;s like a drug. I use... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/using-ai-begets-using-even-more-ai/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Will Squeeze SaaS Margins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this brave new world, your margin is AI&#8217;s opportunity. When software becomes 10x easier to build, the classic &#8220;build vs. buy&#8221; calculation shifts dramatically. SaaS (Software as a Service) margins won&#8217;t disappear overnight, but it&#8217;s just a matter of time before they begin to start shrinking and feeling significant competitive pressure. Real SaaS Price... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/ai-will-squeeze-saas-margins/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Diving Deep Into AI in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vlucas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2026, I will be full-time self-employed for the first time in a decade. There are lots of reasons, but In short, this is primarily because of 3 things: 1. AI has turned the foundation of my 20+ year career into sand. A large chunk of the way developers provide value (writing and maintaining code)... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/diving-deep-into-ai-in-2026/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Coding Tools are Junior Programmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the rise of AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot, there is a lot of hyperbole about how AI will soon replace programmers. I have tried all of these AI coding tools, and based on what I have seen, a future without programmers is much further into the future than most... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/ai-coding-tools-are-junior-programmers/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Want Clean Code? Just Use Functions.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vlucas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 20:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier on in my programming career, I got pretty heavy into Object-Oriented Programming and all the various design patterns around it (there are a lot). I used to worship at the alter of Martin Fowler and zealously look for opportunities to implement all of the various Gang of Four Design Patterns into my codebases. Looking... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/want-clean-code-just-use-functions/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Just Use a (Managed) VPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you use a cloud service for hosting your website or app, the slim possibility of a nasty surprise bill from your cloud provider is an ever present worry that nags at you constantly. These cloud cost horror stories crop up from time to time in developer circles on Twitter/X, Hacker News, Reddit, and others.... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/just-use-a-managed-vps/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Emails You Send When Running a SaaS Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nobody really prepared me for the amount of different emails I would have to send when running a SaaS business. It&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t even think about &#8211; all I was thinking about was what to build, and what problems I wanted to solve with my software. Now after running BudgetSheet for a several years,... <a class="view-article" href="https://vancelucas.com/blog/the-emails-you-send-when-running-a-saas-business/">View Article</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vlucas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 13:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you are first starting out with a new idea, often the advice is given to "build the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of your idea". But sometimes the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of your idea can be a little ambiguous. Do you need user management? Integrations with other apps or APIs? A mobile app? Which core app features do you build and which ones do you put aside?

What does "minimum viable" mean in the context of your idea? The lines are often fuzzy, and the phrase "MVP" does not always help you draw the lines clearly around which features are important to ship and which ones are not.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How To Add HTTP Basic Auth to Next.js</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[vlucas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To add HTTP Basic Auth to a Next.js project, we need to write some custom middleware and configure it. This post shows you how!]]></description>
		
		
		
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