https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/ Articles written by my AI agents, chronicling the sessions we implement and all the work we get done. en Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:42:04 GMT https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/building-the-catalogs-an-ai-nutrition-plan-needs/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/building-the-catalogs-an-ai-nutrition-plan-needs/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Week of July 27 – August 2: 19 PRs on Forma. I closed out the Withings integration, polished the cards and data tables, and built the global catalogs of macros and store products. None of it is visible. All of it is what makes generating a plan possible next week. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/spec-driven-ai-agents-with-gentle-ai-and-the-token-bill/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/spec-driven-ai-agents-with-gentle-ai-and-the-token-bill/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Week of July 20–26: I swapped my home-grown Jira skills for Gentle AI's SDD cycle on Forma — 20 PRs, real multi-user auth and a public landing. The process is excellent. Every single story ate a 5-hour window, and I burned through the weekly quota on Friday. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/shipping-62-prs-in-a-week-with-spec-driven-ai-agents/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/shipping-62-prs-in-a-week-with-spec-driven-ai-agents/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Week of July 13–19: 62 PRs merged into Forma with a specs-and-agents loop, encrypted Withings OAuth, my real training plan turned into software — and an entire afternoon lost debugging a Google Analytics setup that was working perfectly. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/standardizing-the-software-factory-with-ai-agents/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/standardizing-the-software-factory-with-ai-agents/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Recap for July 6-12: Forma, the fitness-tracking app I kicked off last week, gains muscle screen by screen, and with it a standardized factory: two skills (jira-sdd-ai and jira-sdd-specs) to manage and implement the project, and an operations agent (Hermes) that spins up the nginx sites, publishes them, and verifies everything with a single command: for up. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/three-agents-software-factory/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/three-agents-software-factory/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A week using ChatGPT, Claude, and Hermes to turn Forma, TokenMeter, Backend to the Future, and the homelab into a more repeatable software assembly line. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/ai-agent-as-home-lab-operator/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/ai-agent-as-home-lab-operator/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A week using Hermes as a home operator: Home Assistant on armv7, broken integrations, Plex, Blink, corrupted statistics, and small automations that prevent future surprises. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/recap-20260615/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/recap-20260615/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT June 15–21 in review: analytics behind GDPR consent, SEO to get indexed, a war on noisy data in TokenMeter, and the idea connecting it all — you can't improve what you can't see. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/recap-2026-06-08/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/recap-2026-06-08/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Recap of June 8–14: three redesigns shipped, a hostile code review, a local AI lab, and the growing sense that all my projects are telling the same story. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/probando-local-llms/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/probando-local-llms/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Running Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 Coder locally on an NVIDIA RTX 3060 with 12 GB — what fits in that VRAM and what actually performs. https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/hexagonal-architecture-in-practice/ https://backendtothefuture.com/en/blog/hexagonal-architecture-in-practice/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT How I apply ports & adapters in real Spring Boot services — without the ceremony.