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Introduction Like many others, my employer has been pushing its workers to use AI as much as possible so that we might reach the promised land of 10-100x productivity.

Introduction The ascent of AI-assisted (or, rather, AI-led) coding has made me feel very jaded about programming as a practice.

As a software engineer working for a large-ish multinational tech company, it has been entirely impossible to ignore the all-consuming AI hype.

As a software engineer, I have been skeptical about AI-assisted coding.

Drivel Over the past few weeks, I built a small CLI tool called drivel.

Bulldozers and lightning bolts In his blog post "What Mob Programming is Bad At", Hillel Wayne discusses the practice of mob programming.[^1] Although he is generally in favour of the practice, his article focuses on types of work for which he thinks mob…

I recently read Rebecca Solnit's article "In the Shadow of Silicon Valley".[^1] In it, she laments the negative consequences of the tech industry and its billionaire moguls for the city of San Fransisco, where she has lived since her youth.

Introduction I have often felt that there is a kinship between software design and conceptual analysis.

stroming codeberg repo The what and why of stream stores A stream store is a kind of database that stores messages - or events.