SWE (or should I say builder now?) - can’t solve leetcode hard challenges. I like people, talking to customers and solving complex problems. Building @trovexyz
please listen to dessa.
i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human.
if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.
please listen to dessa.
i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human.
if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.
If you find an interesting AI skill, read it's source!
See the nuances and what it asks the AI models to do specifically, this way you'll be able to use the concepts in your own writing.
Prompting is the new writing code and thus you need to understand and exercise it.
The way you discuss architectural approaches on an AI-assisted world is cool: have PRs opened with their respective environments created for each approach, compare and analyze tradeoffs then :)
My job no longer involves writing code.
My job:
- Choose and prioritize tasks
- Decide how to prompt
- Use instructions, skills, and tools to guide the AI
- Create verifiers so the AI can validate its work.
- Validate the results and iterate
Yes claude, you can go ahead and send a message to the agent planning Phase 7b-1 about our spec r2 regarding D1 and D3 decisions which are specified under §2.2
Make sure you don't include those plan markings in comments, please and thank you.
I've been reflecting on this. I'm generally a very optimistic person, but lately I've been feeling a strange sense of sadness that coding has been "solved".
I can, and have, made many caveats to "solved"... but I also know that in five years none of them will matter. It will be solved.
Building things is still fun, but a different kind of fun. It doesn't activate the same parts of my brain as trad coding did.
I think it's okay to mourn the thing we loved doing being different now. Software was the first job to go through the five AI stages of grief, which means we're also some of the first to internalize that this will happen to many other jobs.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad.
Mentoring super junior developers is giving me a glimpse into the future of education on the AI age: we'll be teaching them core concepts and what a good prompt to make sure the AI apply those concepts looks like.