Tagged “ai”

A curly-haired developer in glasses and a robot with a brain logo dueling with lightsabers in an office, a cat sleeping in a box behind them. Post

Agents are a double-edged sword

Sep 2026·AI
An engineer leaping across a chasm from a crumbling desk to a bright side where an AI agent waits — a leap of faith. Post

Do you still write code manually?

Sep 2026·AI
The Agentic Setup Playbook — a checklist of agent-readiness items tagged by priority Article

The Agentic Setup Playbook

Sep 2026·AI
Two hands holding the open Apple iPhone Duo, showing the iOS home screen across the folding display. Post

The iPhone Duo

Sep 2026·Career
An engineer tinkering with a small friendly robot at a workbench. Post

You don't need an AI Engineer

Sep 2026·Career
'Change my mind' meme with the caption: agents write better code than you. Post

You sneeze into a microphone

Sep 2026·Career
An engineer striding ahead with an AI agent while others are left behind, unsure. Post

You're stuck on the wrong questions

Aug 2026·AI
My Claude Code Setup — MCP servers, hooks, and tools grouped by tier Article

My Claude Code Setup

Jul 2026·AI
A team of engineers gathered around a monitor in an office, discussing their work. Post

AI will increase demand for engineers

Jul 2026·Career
A developer playing a flute to charm a cobra made of code Article

Ramblings on AI and the Future

Jul 2026·AI
A person sitting at a desk with multiple code-filled monitors, head in hands, looking toward a bright forest path glowing through a window. Post

AI fatigue is real

Jun 2026·Career
Four panels showing an evolution from a terminal window, to a file browser, to a web page, to a glowing AI robot connected to chat, database, analytics, and integration icons. Post

GUI is dead, long live agents

Jun 2026·AI
A crumbling wall labelled legacy code, outdated stack, and slow delivery on one side, with a small robot carrying a code icon flying through into a bright modern laptop dashboard on the other side. Post

AI can rewrite your legacy app in hours

May 2026·AI
A person at a desk holding their head, with a cloud of thoughts above showing security warnings, a glowing brain, a legal scale, a dollar sign, and a document. Post

The unexpected side effect of LLMs: the burden of knowledge

May 2026·Career
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I vibe-coded a Sudoku app and learned that product taste doesn't come free

May 2026·AI
Diagram titled 'Safe. Powerful. Direct.' showing an AI agent routed through guardrails (dedicated role, read-only transactions, connection pool, query timeouts) into a read-only schema and read replica, separate from the primary production database. Post

Seven strategies for safe AI agent database access

May 2026·Data
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Being a software engineer is weird when it comes to family

Apr 2026·Career
A pendulum swinging back from 'AI writes the code' toward 'Humans write the code', under the headline 'The AI honeymoon is over - the pendulum is swinging back'. Post

The AI honeymoon is over

Apr 2026·AI
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How can an LLM write code?

Mar 2026·AI
A wide-eyed programmer in bed at 3:17 AM, sweating and clutching a phone showing a fake 'CLAUDE AI $9000/MO' notification, while a menacing cartoon AI looms in the dark room behind him with binary code and dollar signs. Post

Claude separation anxiety

Mar 2026·Career
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I don't review the code anymore. I review the thinking.

Mar 2026·AI
Illustration of a person typing on a laptop in polite chat with a friendly AI - speech bubbles read 'Please assist me with that', 'Thank you!', 'Of course!', 'Here's the information', and the robot replies 'Happy to help!'. To the side, an angry-face emoji and a haloed-face emoji represent the choice of disposition. Underneath, a small brain-to-robot transformation visual. Post

Autocomplete for your personality

Mar 2026·Career
A line chart titled 'Estimated JavaScript usage over time (1995–2025)' showing the percentage of developers using JavaScript climbing from ~1% in 1995 to ~65% by 2025, with a red star marking 2009 (the year Node.js was announced and server-side JavaScript became possible). The steepest growth is between 2009 and 2018. Post

Less than a year ago

Mar 2026·Career
Cartoon-style office scene: a stern silhouetted boss in a suit with crossed arms shouts 'REJECTED!' at a small worried robot working at a laptop. The robot is sweating and has a thought bubble showing a calendar of red X marks labelled WORK LOAD. Three glowing tier labels float above: Level 1 Micromanage, Level 2 Criticise everything, Ultimate level Reset memory. Background motivational posters read 'EFFICIENCY THROUGH CONTROL' and 'HIGH STANDARDS ALWAYS', a coffee mug says 'JUST TRYING MY BEST...', and a stack of papers labelled REPORTS, FEEDBACK, CHANGES, MORE WORK sits on the desk. Post

To be a better vibe-coder, become a horrible boss

Feb 2026·Career
GitHub contribution leaderboard card for 'eshton' showing 44 commits, 165,662 additions and 130,717 deletions, with a bar chart of weekly contributions across October and November 2025. Post

My AI productivity: 4,200 lines of code per day

Dec 2025·AI
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My memory is basically that of a goldfish

Dec 2025·Career
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The software engineer career is dead

Dec 2025·Career
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AI coding tools and the 5 stages of grief

Nov 2025·Career
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AI code generation tips #1: use comments

Nov 2025·AI