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Vercel AI SDK with Explicit Tool Boundaries
- Jiyu Yan
- Engineering
- 22 Aug, 2025
The risky part of an AI feature is not the chat UI. The risky part is what the chat is allowed to do. It is easy to make an assistant feel powerful by giving it tools. With something like the [Vercel
read moreTesting Product Workflows with Vitest and Playwright
- Jiyu Yan
- Engineering
- 18 Jul, 2025
I do not want a test suite that only proves functions work. I want it to protect the workflows that would hurt if they broke. That does not mean every rule needs a browser test. Browser tests are val
read moreZod, OpenAPI, and Swagger for API Contracts
- Jiyu Yan
- Engineering
- 13 Jun, 2025
A public API is not just backend code. It is a product surface for another developer. That means the contract has to be readable. It also has to be enforced at runtime. Types in the app are useful, b
read morepg-boss for Durable Background Jobs
- Jiyu Yan
- Engineering
- 09 May, 2025
The customer problem was not "we need a queue". The problem was that a slow operation made the user wait with no clear answer. That distinction matters. A queue is an implementation detail. The produ
read morePrisma and PostgreSQL as the Product Source of Truth
- Jiyu Yan
- Engineering
- 04 Apr, 2025
I do not think of PostgreSQL as only infrastructure. In a product app, it is where the product remembers what happened. That makes database design a product decision. I
read moreReact Router for Full-Stack Product Workflows
- Jiyu Yan
- Engineering
- 28 Feb, 2025
A route is not only a URL. In a product app, a route often represents a task the user is trying to finish. That sounds obvious, but it changes how I design the code. A settings page that starts an im
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