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Ardee Aram

Ardee Aram

Software Engineer - Legal, Tax, & Accounting Tech
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💎 Ruby on Rails Developer 👨🏻‍💻 3x Amazon Web Service (AWS) Certified Software Engineer 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Husband, and dad of two 🧘🏾 Eternal student of life

The Illusion of Simplicity: Why “Easy” Software Is the Hardest to Build

The Illusion of Simplicity: Why “Easy” Software Is the Hardest to Build 

“Easy” software is never easy. It’s the hardest thing in the world to build.

Open Letter Calls for Ban on Superintelligent AI Development

Open Letter Calls for Ban on Superintelligent AI Development 

We must not tinker with forces we do not control.

(12) Why Your Tests Matter More Than Ever in the AI-Augmented Era | LinkedIn

(12) Why Your Tests Matter More Than Ever in the AI-Augmented Era | LinkedIn 

AI magnifies the role of unit tests to ensure correctness. Conversely, it also amplifies the descent into chaos when unit tests are missing.

We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch.

We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch. 

I've been migrating from AWS to Hetzner myself for a while now. In my use case, only S3 is left in AWS, the rest has been migrated to Hetzner.

Claude cycles - Donald Knuth

Claude cycles - Donald Knuth 

" It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days." - Donald Knuth, 2026

Digital Pinoys Backs 'Makabayan' Bill to Repeal 12% Digital VAT; Cites Burden on Freelancers and Students | BitPinas

Digital Pinoys Backs 'Makabayan' Bill to Repeal 12% Digital VAT; Cites Burden on Freelancers and Students | BitPinas 

I support this 100%.

Vietnam AI law takes effect, first in Southeast Asia

Vietnam AI law takes effect, first in Southeast Asia 

It's about time for the Philippines to follow suit.

AI, cyber threats could wipe out jobs—Aquino - Manila Standard

AI, cyber threats could wipe out jobs—Aquino - Manila Standard 

Kudos to Senator Bam Aquino for addressing the possible impact of the rapid advancement of AI on jobs and social stability.

Elon Wants AI to Skip Code and Spit Out Binaries. That’s Not Progress.

Elon Wants AI to Skip Code and Spit Out Binaries. That’s Not Progress. 

Skipping source code for AI-made binaries isn’t the future—it’s a rollback. Here’s why compilers exist, and why “stochastic compilation” doesn’t ship.

Notes on pending AI legislation — UP College of Law

Notes on pending AI legislation — UP College of Law 

"AI has transformed from an interesting tech toy to something that merits a serious policy discussion"

AI-Powered Image Search Engine with Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Guide

AI-Powered Image Search Engine with Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Guide

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Learn how to build an AI image search engine that auto-labels photos - no manual encoding needed. Upload, and let the system do the rest.

AI Is Not the Future – It is Now

AI Is Not the Future – It is Now

How IT Graduates Can Survive and Thrive in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Serverless AI: Deploy Hugging Face Models on SageMaker for Less Than the Cost of a Burger

Serverless AI: Deploy Hugging Face Models on SageMaker for Less Than the Cost of a Burger

A Step-by-Step Guide on Deploying and Hosting Hugging Face 🤗 Models on AWS SageMaker Serverless

How to make a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution quickly with Amazon Bedrock and Django

How to make a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution quickly with Amazon Bedrock and Django

Let's build a simple RAG solution using Bedrock and Django. This is a great introductory project when trying to learn more about Large Language Models and AI Integration.

How to deploy Django on AWS Lambda

How to deploy Django on AWS Lambda

How to host a Django 5 project for a few cents per month?

Safelink ML Python Rails

AI-enabled secure file sharing for lawyers
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Ask Alex LLM ML RAG

Data interrogation for law professionals
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Abogado PH LLM Python RAG

AI-Powered Legal Insights for Philippine Laws
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