Codeaholicguy is the personal blog of Hoang Nguyen, Director of Engineering at ShopBack, where he writes thoughtful, hands-on pieces about software engineering, leadership, and building with purpose. Posts range from practical team practices and architecture notes to deep dives on AI-assisted workflows with tools like CursorAI. The tone is pragmatic, product-minded, and aimed at engineers who want to ship faster without sacrificing code quality.
9 articles from this blog
A hands-on review of Cursor 2.0's new Composer AI coding model, testing its speed and code quality with and without structured workflows.
A technical analysis of the 2025 AWS outage, its causes, impact on businesses, and lessons for building resilient cloud architectures.
A software engineer shares his AI-accelerated development workflow using CursorAI and ai-devkit to speed up the traditional software engineering process.
A step-by-step tutorial on building a ChatGPT to-do app using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), JavaScript, Express, and React.
A developer compares Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5 Codex, and Grok Code Fast 1 for coding tasks in Cursor, testing feature generation and test creation.
A guide on advancing your software engineering career by shifting from solving defined problems to identifying the right business problems to solve.
A software engineer outlines three stages of engineering experience, from beginners learning from mistakes to experts anticipating problems.
Article argues that developing the right mindset is more crucial for career advancement than simply chasing a new job title in tech.
Explores how pattern matching in programming relates to the mental patterns experienced software engineers use to solve problems efficiently.
