Shipping AI Features Without the Hype
A pragmatic guide to adding genuinely useful AI to your product using the Vercel AI SDK.
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Good writing about engineering earns its length. I try to lead with the decision and the trade-off, then back it with the context that made the decision necessary. The goal is for a reader to walk away with a mental model they can reuse, not just a snippet they can paste.
When I write about performance, I anchor everything in measurement. A frosted-glass panel looks effortless, but backdrop-filter forces the browser to sample everything behind it on every frame. The trick is to constrain what gets blurred, promote the layer, and avoid animating blur radius directly.
Motion deserves the same discipline. Animation should answer a question the user is already asking — where did this come from, where is it going, what changed. When it does that, it feels invisible. When it is purely decorative, it taxes attention and battery for nothing.