Kris Carta's personal blog

Came across this during a Claude Code (Opus 5) session, when the agent attempted a rm -rf (arguably the correct thing to do given the task I’d set).

From: Software Factories, Light and Dark Addy Osmani’s concluding thoughts on Dex Horthy’s talk “Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail” (7:33-7:52): Emphasis mine Where the human actually goes I think engineers need to increasingly

Like every year since my conversion to Apple fanboy (and to try to justify my personal developer license 💸), I tuned into today’s WWDC keynote with great anticipation.

…it’s been a while, blog!

I’ve watched & re-watched this wonderful ‘The Pragmatic Engineer’ episode with Kent Beck, and warmly recommend it to anyone whose interests cross over agile and programming and AI, as mine do.

A few months ago I wrote a post detailing my Emacs journey so far.

It feels great to be back typing in my blog!

Since 2019 I have been re-using the same Excel sheet for project budgeting.

This week practically melted before me, one of those where I can read my calendar and go “sure, if that’s what you say happened this week” 🫠 Now a full 8 weeks through the year, I feel like I’m at a point where I can tell what I can and can’t reasonably e…

This being a typical holiday week here in Denmark, I took Thursday & Friday off in order to get some more time with baby and take care of some ‘dad chores’ around the house.