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How my replies have changed when a technical article is shared at work:
Jr SWE: "Oh that's very interesting. Thanks for sharing!"
SWE: Comment about article proving understanding
Sr SWE: Shares 3 more related pieces
Staff SWE: choose one of "lol", "cool", "eh maybe"

and now greptile for PR reviews

does greptile 5/5 on my first PR after my org added it mean I'm superhuman?

No that's web3. I think web4 was AI...
I kind of was okay with the web2 moniker but everything after that was pure nonsense

I will pay you more money to keep your logo the same, to not redesign your product, and to not add AI to it

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How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...

The real problem is that the only people qualified to drive an agentic coding model are people who are intimately familiar with the codebase and *familiarity with the codebase drops when you vibe code*

See, for example, the recent study commissioned by Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

I’m still open to work: I’m a software engineer in Sydney who’s as hands on building products, as he is wrangling architecture and integration, or managing devops, observability and infrastructure.

Typescript/Node/React/AWS is my primary stack, but adaptable to whatever else.

onsite/remote/hybrid

Seagulls, sandpipers, oyster catchers, and more looking for their dinner

The only value is I can say "oh I had claude do this thing that was annoying me but I know you wouldn't have given me bandwidth to do"

or I could just do it myself the way I actually wanted it done...

Did it save me any time?
idk, I had to babysit it a bit (mostly b/c I'm not going to auto-approve all the commands it wants to use) and it's probably a task that would've taken me a couple hours. Not sure it was worth the split focus.

decided to give it a chore task today while I worked on something else... people seem to say it's about as good as a "junior dev" and I'd say more like an intern so far. Finds one line not working, changes 20 lines around it to fix the problem when it could just have changed the 1 line.

i guess rustic hasn't been updated in over 2 years... hmmm... maybe I should go back to rust-mode. I *think* I made the switch in order to use eglot before (but I could be misremembering)

emacsmusings

Ya this is basically my dream and was wondering if this ever got better (I mean what happened to that $1M google gave to the Rust foundation for this :D)

it wouldn't be true to say that "AI usage is required" at my company nor that "AI usage isn't required" so in some ways this is volitional and I like to think of it as a bit of "opposition research" 😅

I don't see myself using it a lot, partly from my distaste for how much natural resources are being used by these companies and also because I actually find it valuable to write most of the code I commit (imagine that)

finally trying out claudecode cli after prodding from work (and a paid-for account). I've sparingly used cursor but not cli (also a paid-for account). My first impressions (literally day 1) is that at least the workflow is a lot more natural & I like that it's separate from my editor.

I loved it, such a nice story and encouraging to hear

sweet

(i realize i just did a "what about x" reply... but since you know* me, I figured you'd know I was genuinely wondering)

Ok but what about c++

They're so good, finally available in the us via target

Beautiful capture

Love to see it

I've had more, which naturally prepared me to be a Software Engineer 😀

Five jobs I've had

1. Custodian (janitor)
2. Server at a Restaurant
3. Barista
4. Cell phone sales person
5. Strawberry picker

feel like there's a list to be made of "great shows with ass endings"

for sure, flamegraph works on any binary too, which is neat

this is just an svg and is quite interactive

flamegraph-rs, it's been pretty nice