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 · RSS2026
Running Apple StoreKit 2 Subscriptions on Cloudflare Workers and D1 Without Paying a Revenue Cut
I shipped a small iOS app recently and hit the point every subscription app hits: the client says the user is subscribed, and you have to decide whether to believe it.
· 7 min read
Every AI Session Starts With Amnesia, and I'm the One Carrying the Context
I have noticed a recurring problem in the way I work with AI tools. The models are getting better, but I am spending more time carrying context between them.
· 14 min read
AI Switcher Desktop Alpha: A GUI for Switching Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, and Gemini CLI Accounts
I have been working on AI Switcher (aisw) since April 2026, and it started from a very practical annoyance: switching between multiple AI coding accounts should not require a …
· 6 min read
How to Switch Between Multiple Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI Accounts Without the Credential Mess
A couple of months ago I wrote about the surprisingly persistent annoyance of switching between multiple accounts in Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI.
· 15 min read
Project aisw: Switching Between Multiple Accounts in Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI
I use Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI every day.
· 3 min read
Code Is Cheap. Guarantees Aren’t
If fewer humans are writing code line by line, we should at least stop pretending languages shaped by decades of human compromise are the obvious foundation for the next phase of …
· 4 min read
The Pull Request is Dead: Surviving the AI Code Avalanche
Over my career, I’ve watched the software industry operate under a shared, unspoken assumption: typing out the syntax was the hardest part of building software. Let’s be honest.
· 4 min read
AI Made Coding Cheap. Coordination Is Still Expensive
AI did not make software delivery faster. It just moved the bottleneck.
· 16 min read
2025
The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane
I keep a personal wiki of infrastructure patterns I’ve used. This is one of those notes, cleaned up for public consumption.
· 17 min read
Mastering Multi-Environment Terraform: Strategies from the Trenches
Every time I spin up a new project or venture, I find myself circling back to the same question: how should I structure Terraform for multiple environments?
· 16 min read
The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store
When the iPhone first landed in my hands around 2009, it felt like the world shifted under our feet.
· 9 min read
Open source
All projects- AI Switcher
Open-source account switching for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Antigravity CLI: the aisw command-line tool and a companion desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux share profiles, contexts and repository rules.
- storekit-cloudflare-workers
A drop-in server-side StoreKit 2 backend for Cloudflare Workers and D1. Apple JWS verification, entitlement resolution and App Store Server Notifications V2, MIT licensed.
- lorepack
A local-first project context runtime that turns a repository and its surrounding documents into versioned context AI tools can fetch when needed. Early, working name.
Commercial projects
YolRadarA live iPhone driving assistant used by more than 5,000 drivers in Türkiye, with alerts for speed cameras, EDS average-speed corridors and red-light cameras, alongside web route planning.
ŞarjBotIndependent EV-charging decisions for Türkiye: stations, operator tariffs, session cost and compatibility, with a B2B data API and an iPhone app on the way.
Yakıt VaktiFuel price intelligence for Türkiye: national and all 81 provinces’ petrol, diesel and LPG prices, refill-or-wait guidance, estimated tank costs and nearby station comparisons to help save on your fuel budget.