I don't review the code anymore. I review the thinking.

On a busy week, I ship around 10,000 lines of code changes a day. There is no way to review all that line by line — and that’s not what review should be anymore.

March 24, 2026 · 2 min · 215 words · Agoston Fung
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.

Autocomplete for your personality

Sam Altman said millions are wasted on people thanking LLMs. I keep doing it anyway. Here’s why - and what your brain does when you don’t.

March 10, 2026 · 1 min · 175 words · Agoston Fung
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.

Less than a year ago

A friend told me software wouldn’t need humans to write code. I laughed. Twelve months later, here’s the receipt.

March 7, 2026 · 2 min · 238 words · Agoston Fung
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.

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

Want to fully exploit AI coding tools? Time to dust off your worst-boss instincts. A short field guide.

February 15, 2026 · 1 min · 194 words · Agoston Fung
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.

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

Nearly 300,000 lines of code changed in my GitHub over 10 weeks. Most of it is throwaway. That’s exactly the point.

December 17, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Agoston Fung

My memory is basically that of a goldfish

On SQL syntax, fan-fiction ALTER TABLE statements, why I still need the SQL magician, and what AI actually liberated us from.

December 5, 2025 · 2 min · 243 words · Agoston Fung

The software engineer career is dead

The ‘AI killed the dev career’ headline is wrong. Here’s why now is actually a great time to start in software.

December 3, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Agoston Fung

AI coding tools and the 5 stages of grief

Developers aren’t just adapting to AI - we’re grieving. A field guide to the five stages, with sample dialogue.

November 29, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Agoston Fung

AI code generation tips #1: use comments

When you need to make small changes to existing code, don’t try to describe everything in one long prompt. Add TODO comments where the changes belong, and let the AI sweep through them.

November 15, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Agoston Fung