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I Don’t Code by Hand Anymore I don’t code by hand anymore, and I don’t personally know anyone else who does at this point.

Coding With LLMs in 2026: The Model Matters More Than the Prompts Agentic coding took a step-function leap in late 2025.

Most design or decision documents include a pros and cons list for different approaches, but this rarely gives you an accurate comparison between two or more options.

At this point, a new 10x productivity AI tool is announced almost every week, if not every day.

How I Use LLMs to Write the Majority of my Code What if I told you that I write less code by hand than I ever have, and I’m also moving faster than ever?

“So should we pick the vendor or try and build it ourselves?”

Why Do Side Projects Matter for Your Career Ever wondered how to stand out as a software engineer beyond what you learn on the job?

We spent two years building an internal developer portal—only to discover it wasn’t solving our developers’ biggest pain points.

I’ve spent my last four and a half years working at the then unicorn now decacorn Brex.

Background In the fast-paced and collaborative world of software engineering, seeking help is crucial for both individual growth and project success.

In my first professional experience with Kubernetes (K8s), I was tasked with improving our ecommerce store site performance and SEO.

In February 2022, I achieved a significant milestone in my career by being promoted to Staff Engineer at Brex.

Background Although over the years I’ve used different continuous integration and deployment(CICD) and workflow automation tooling at my places of work, I’ve mostly used CircleCI as my personal project CICD framework/service.

Disclaimer I’d like to start off by stating that this blog post is my own thoughts.

Progressive Income Taxes In the United States (as well as other locations), we have a progressive income tax system.

Over the last couple of years I haven’t made a concerted effort to blog, and in general this website has been fairly unmaintained.

Elixir was a deliberate choice when Brex was started, as outlined by our co-founder Pedro in this blog post.

Last year I started a new job at Brex where Elixir is the primary programming language for business logic.

Commenting Code in School In school, professors and teaching assistants constantly talked about the need to write comments in your code in order for other people to properly read and understand what you had done.

Onboarding can be a very hectic and stressful time when you are starting a new job.

I recently started coding in Elixir professionally.

Recently I switched jobs and started coding in Elixir professionally.

Background Late last year I decided to start interviewing for new jobs.

Background Late last year I decided to start interviewing for new jobs.

Background Late last year I decided to start interviewing for new jobs.

“Always Remove Orange Cords” Recently I came across the following interview with Chief Product Officer Gijo Mathew at VTS.

Disclaimer Gatsby is a great framework that I utilize to build this website.

Gatsby.js is one of the most popular frontend frameworks currently and a huge buzzword in frontend web development.

There are multiple techniques and approaches for automating application updates to Kubernetes clusters.

When testing a React based application that uses Sentry.io it is necessary to mock Sentry.

Edited 2020-12-26 to split up build and deploy steps to run build on every branch So you’ve created your first Gatsby.js application and you’d like to deploy it on AWS instead of Netlify like everyone else.

Edited 2019-07-13 based on concerns Disclaimer I do not condone the use of this information for creating illegal web crawlers.

In two of my previous posts we created a Docker image for a Next.js application and pushed it to ECR, and then we also talked about setting up and deploying an application to EKS.

In a previous post I talked about setting up a Next.js Docker container and deploying it to Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

The first step in “dockerizing” an application is to download Docker onto your local machine.

As a data-driven eCommerce company, Rockets of Awesome deals with tens of thousands of segment events everyday.

We recently decided to migrate to Google Optimize(GO or Optimize from here on) as our A/B experiment test system for our frontend SPA which is built using React and Redux.

Hi I’m James Russo and this is my first attempt at a blog, so bear with me on this.