Santiago Vazquez — Blog https://santiagovqz.com/blog Notes and news on full-stack engineering, SvelteKit, serverless architecture, AI, and building products that scale. en-us Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:18:41 GMT AI's Hardware Story Is Splitting in Two Directions https://santiagovqz.com/blog/ai-hardware-story-splitting https://santiagovqz.com/blog/ai-hardware-story-splitting Two real hardware stories landed the same week — a datacenter memory shortage and capable open models collapsing onto ten-year-old servers. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT santiago.vqz@gmail.com (Santiago Vázquez Villarreal) AI Engineering Performance Product The Expertise Tax Is Going Unpaid https://santiagovqz.com/blog/expertise-tax-going-unpaid https://santiagovqz.com/blog/expertise-tax-going-unpaid The senior engineer's AI edge was built through years of manual debugging — work AI now makes optional, which threatens to stop producing new seniors. Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT santiago.vqz@gmail.com (Santiago Vázquez Villarreal) AI Engineering Product AI Valuations Are Pricing in Feedback Loops, Not Models https://santiagovqz.com/blog/ai-valuations-feedback-loops https://santiagovqz.com/blog/ai-valuations-feedback-loops Cognition raised $1B at a $26B valuation the same week five frontier LLMs disagreed on 67% of fact-check claims — the gap is grading loops. Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT santiago.vqz@gmail.com (Santiago Vázquez Villarreal) AI Product Engineering AI Is Adding Attack Surface at Every Layer of the Stack https://santiagovqz.com/blog/ai-attack-surface https://santiagovqz.com/blog/ai-attack-surface Three security reports in one week are not three problems but one: the access and autonomy that make AI systems useful are exactly what make them exploitable. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT santiago.vqz@gmail.com (Santiago Vázquez Villarreal) AI Security AppSec Engineering Why I Reach for SvelteKit https://santiagovqz.com/blog/why-sveltekit https://santiagovqz.com/blog/why-sveltekit The handful of reasons SvelteKit keeps winning my greenfield projects — from runes to prerendering to how little ceremony it asks for. Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT santiago.vqz@gmail.com (Santiago Vázquez Villarreal) SvelteKit Engineering Performance TypeScript Welcome to the Blog https://santiagovqz.com/blog/hello-world https://santiagovqz.com/blog/hello-world Why I started writing here — a space for engineering notes, product updates, and lessons learned building software that scales. Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT santiago.vqz@gmail.com (Santiago Vázquez Villarreal) Engineering SvelteKit Writing Product