Frédéric van der Essen

Could code refactoring become a one-click operation, like running a formatter but for architecture ?

I have been programming for more than 20 years. 20 years of learning how to translate thought into code. 20 years of trying to master an editor to be fast at it. 2025 was the year when I wrote my last piece of code.

The diagram above approximately represents the process I have to go through to complete a programming task at work.

Whether artificial intelligence systems will end up being a positive or a negative force for humanity is still an open question.

Content Addressable Storage (often abbreviated as CAS) is a technique to derive the id of a document from its content, basically by taking its hash.

I have discovered something marvelous; whatever you do to make the AIs more effective at helping you do your job is also going to help your fellow human colleagues.

Note: I wrote this article before OpenAI's announcement of their plugin integration which uses similar techniques to the ones highlighted in this article (things move fast these days ...) but I believe it is still worth a read !

This is a repost of an old article from 2014 that was lost in a blog migration but I think is still relevant.