Craig Shield

Software Dev and Architect on .net stack, working for @fathomhq as well as our own business @XynTech

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@svpino As an Engineering Manager with a team of 3 or more engineers I've been doing this for years.

Check compliance to patterns, check domain application, spot check code.

Now I use another agent to check the patterns and code

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@ellymelly Queensland dealt with it by making all fares 50 cents. Staff then don't care if you don't pay because "it's just 50 cents"

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@ellymelly They thought Orwell was a how-to guide

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@IBM From 3270 terminals connecting to TSO and CICS to OS/2 running on a PS/2 using Token Ring that defined much of my early career in IT!

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@mark_sonter @ellymelly That's how elections are lost. They don't want to lose jobs and will verhermently fight and polical who would do this - look at what happend to @CampbellNewman in Queensland

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@nixkristall @unclebobmartin Give the same specification to two different engineers and how deterministic is the outcome?

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@e38383 @unclebobmartin They want to move compute to space, but we are the computer (until the Vogons come)

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Vibe coding is not the same as disciplined agentic development.

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@unclebobmartin @TurnipJam We are the Borg, resistance is futile

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

Absolutely not! You can't use a full EV in regional Australia: It’s time to pull the plug on plug-in hybrids https://t.co/nq189GlBpx via @techcrunch

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@madskristensen Also merge conflicts in Markdown files, try to resolve in Visual Studio will hang. (2022 and 2026)

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@madskristensen When you have a solution (sln or sln) but working with Markdown documents not in a project, or any file not in a project. Lots of Markdown via VS Code. Planning docs in Windsurf

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@DannyFlex225 @unclebobmartin Two days with the source code? What would a human developer do with access to the full source code? If not 2 days but not 3 months to reproduce when you know the domain

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@unclebobmartin @YouTube In Australia, unless I am charging using Solar, gas is cheaper than electricity. I have a plug-in hybrid for this reason and for distance in remote regions (with no chargers)

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@redpillb0t He may work in finance, but had never worked in a bank. The actual terms are "accrued daily, charged monthly" Each day you accrue interest on the balance of your account. Once a month they charge that to your account, so the compounding only occurs if at all monthly.

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@madskristensen @colhountech @PedroDias420195 Try resolving merge conflicts in a Markdown doc - it completely freezes VS (2022 and 2026)

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@PedroDias420195 If you see the JetBrains Idea tracking for this it's like 13+ years with no action 🤷🤦

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@PedroDias420195 I use VS 2026 and it's great. The only thing I use VS Code for is the Markdown docs in the file system (ones not in the solution). I do not use Rider, biggest thing is no docking Windows outside the main window and no saved windows layout!!

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@yoavabrahami @unclebobmartin Very similar process to what I am doing with Devin, I'm getting more Marxian in my repo than code on some PRs

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@Dhanush_Nehru Principal Software Engineer, our company supports moving in higher levels of engineering withouy having to move to management or Architecture.

[Craig Shield @casfnq]

@Dhanush_Nehru So I must be "no software engineer then" 🤷. 56 and actually have 40 years experience (yes I wrote software at 16 not as a project or school assessment)