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The Invisible Bugs AI Finally Finds (A Real Magento Case)
Six months of empty Magento categories, solved in one afternoon with Claude Code. How AI finds the invisible bugs your team learned to live with.
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Adobe Commerce & Magento 2, the developer career, and AI — from 15+ years in the trenches.
I’m Tiago Sampaio, and I’ve been writing here since 2012. Three branches, one log. Choose where you want to start.
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How developers can work with AI instead of fearing it, from someone shipping Magento code with it every day.
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Adobe Commerce and Magento 2 fixes, internals and patterns you can use on Monday.
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Growing from developer to tech lead, and working for US companies from Brazil.
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Green is AI. Light blue is the technical work: Magento 2, Adobe Commerce, PHP and the tooling around them. Violet is the career and mindset writing. Newest at the top.
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The Invisible Bugs AI Finally Finds (A Real Magento Case)
Six months of empty Magento categories, solved in one afternoon with Claude Code. How AI finds the invisible bugs your team learned to live with.
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What Is a Token? How Claude and ChatGPT Read, Count and Charge for Your Text
Tokens explained by an engineer: how BPE splits text, why Portuguese costs more, and how Claude and ChatGPT count and charge for tokens.
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Developer Jobs Are Dying? This Remote Adobe Commerce Role Is Posted at Up to $215,000
A remote Adobe Commerce architect role is posted at USD 150,000–215,000 a year. What the market still pays for, and how to track these roles.
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Claude Ultra Drops the 5-Hour Limit. The Weekly Limit Is Still Your Budget.
Anthropic renamed Max 20x to Ultra and removed the five-hour limit for verified accounts. The weekly limit stays. Here is how to choose a plan.
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How to Fix: “There has been an error processing your request” in Magento 2
Seeing ‘There has been an error processing your request’ in Magento 2? Use the error log record number to find the real error in minutes.
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How to Fix: “Area code is not set” in Magento 2
Getting ‘Area code is not set’ in Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce? See why it happens in CLI commands, patches and scripts, and 4 ways to fix it.
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Livraria Saraiva on Magento: the project that changed my career
How Livraria Saraiva, a Brazilian bookseller since 1914, moved to Magento in seven months and reached the main stage of Magento Imagine 2015.
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A Curated List of Developer Jobs, on My Blog
A curated list of developer roles: Magento & Adobe Commerce, e-commerce engineering and general IT, with filters for where you can apply from.
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Your Claude Max Plan Now Includes Monthly API Credits
Claude Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits: $200 on Max 20x, $100 on Max 5x. How to claim them, what they cover and what they don’t.
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php2shell: What Magento Teams Need to Do About the PHP RCE
Two critical PHP engine bugs (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) allow pre-auth RCE on Magento. Which PHP to install, how to patch, and how to mitigate.
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Hi, I’m Tiago.
I’m a senior developer focused on Adobe Commerce and Magento 2. My 15+ years building software taught me that the code and the career grow together, so I write on both branches. If you need help with a Magento project, or just want to talk shop, my inbox is open.
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