Anna M. McGregor

Managing Director of Coding Integrity, SOM, TTUHSC

Account Reconciliation I Compliance Auditor I Federal Grants Management I Medical Billing and Coding

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Love this. Starter roadmap: HTML/CSS → JavaScript → APIs → ship 3 tiny projects → iterate weekly.

Momentum beats motivation.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Everyone’s worried AI will ‘take jobs’ but that’s the wrong frame. AI won’t immediately delete careers, it will quietly hollow them out. One person with AI can now do the work of 5. You won’t be fired outright. You’ll just slowly become the least efficient person in the room.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

The best developers are not the ones who know the most frameworks. They are the ones who can reduce complexity under pressure and make a product feel effortless to the end user.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Signs your engineering culture is actually healthy:

– Developers are encouraged to delete code, not just add it

– Code reviews focus on clarity and future maintainability, not just nitpicking style

– Outages are treated as learning opportunities, not blame games

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

o4-mini-high really feels like the sleeper agent of OpenAI’s lineup—lightweight but punches hard in code. I’ve been pairing it with Claude for doc reasoning and Gemini Flash when I need fast context hops. Wild how the “mini” model’s the one carrying half my dev stack.

[Haider. @haider1]

your daily reminder: o4-mini-high is still the best in coding so far

it's faster and cheaper than other oAI models

yesterday, sam also announced that message limits will be doubled.

another interesting point: gemini 2.5 flash performs slightly better than 2.5 pro in coding

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

@AnnPeardre Distributed systems don’t solve problems. They just move them to a different container and add retry logic.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

No one talks about the emotional damage caused by accidentally closing the one Stack Overflow tab that actually had the answer.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

@_TahirMahmood @satyanadella It’s easy to get lost in tutorials and tech stacks but hearing Satya talk about passion and purpose reminds me why I started learning to code in the first place. I’m not just building features, I’m learning how to shape things that matter.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

I'm curious to see how this self-modifying behavior is implemented and what safeguards are in place to ensure stability and maintainability. Overall, it's an exciting development that could pave the way for more autonomous development tools.

[Cline @cline]

Our most recent update enables a powerful workflow:

"Self-Improving Cline"

Now, Cline can edit its own .clinerules based on user interactions for a given task, meaning Cline gets better and better the more you use it.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Your code might be clean, but is it 'someone new on the team understood it without a 30-minute Zoom call' clean?

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Every codebase eventually reaches a point where adding a new feature feels like performing surgery with a butter knife. You know it’ll work… but you’re not leaving without scars.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

@JaneHuntington7 Crazy to think we went from debating tabs vs spaces to AI writing entire codebases while we watch.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Senior dev reviewing AI-generated code: ‘Yep, looks good to me’

[Catalin @catalinmpit]

Developers reviewing the code generated by AI before accepting all the changes.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

The best engineers don’t just solve the problem at hand; they anticipate future constraints, minimize technical debt, and ensure the next developer can extend their work without rewriting half the codebase.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Good software engineering is not just about writing efficient code—it’s about designing scalable, maintainable, and resilient systems.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

There are two types of programming bugs:

The ones that break everything immediately.

The ones that lurk silently for months, waiting for the worst possible moment to reveal themselves in production.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Programming is wild. One day you’re solving complex problems like a genius, the next you’re stuck on a bug for hours only to realize you forgot to restart the server.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Centered code is cool until you have to debug it and your eyes start playing Tetris with the syntax.

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

Centered code just looks better 🤓🍷

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

The best time to start coding was yesterday. The second best time? Today. 2025 is just another checkpoint in the journey.

[arman @armankhon]

if you're still learning to code in 2025, you aren't wasting your time.

[Anna M. McGregor @anna_macgregor]

Senior devs don’t know everything. They just Google faster and have better instincts for where the problem probably is.