Burak Dede

Essays on software engineering, AI-assisted delivery and engineering leadership.

I’m Burak Dede, an engineering leader and software engineer based in Germany. Two decades across fintech, payments, e-commerce and logistics, from first engineering hire to leading organisations; today engineering leader and site lead at Wayfair. More about me.

Essays

12 published · RSS
12 AI Switcher now has a VS Code and Cursor extension I published the first aisw extension for VS Code and Cursor, making AI coding-agent account switching available from the editor while keeping credentials in the native aisw CLI. · 2 min read

2026

  1. 11 Running Apple StoreKit 2 Subscriptions on Cloudflare Workers and D1 Without Paying a Revenue Cut · 7 min
  2. 10 Every AI Session Starts With Amnesia, and I'm the One Carrying the Context · 14 min
  3. 9 AI Switcher Desktop Alpha: A GUI for Switching Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, and Gemini CLI Accounts · 6 min
  4. 8 How to Switch Between Multiple Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI Accounts Without the Credential Mess · 15 min
  5. 7 Project aisw: Switching Between Multiple Accounts in Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI · 3 min
  6. 6 Code Is Cheap. Guarantees Aren’t · 4 min
  7. 5 The Pull Request is Dead: Surviving the AI Code Avalanche · 4 min
  8. 4 AI Made Coding Cheap. Coordination Is Still Expensive · 16 min

2025

  1. 3 The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane · 17 min
  2. 2 Mastering Multi-Environment Terraform: Strategies from the Trenches · 16 min
  3. 1 The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store · 9 min

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