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Agents are a double-edged sword

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

Do you still write code manually?

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

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.

GUI is dead, long live agents

A crumbling wall labelled legacy code, outdated stack, and slow delivery on one side, with a small robot carrying a code icon flying through into a bright modern laptop dashboard on the other side.

AI can rewrite your legacy app in hours

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

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.

Seven strategies for safe AI agent database access

Being a software engineer is weird when it comes to family

Apr 2026·Career

Pressure reveals patterns

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'.

The AI honeymoon is over

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

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

To be an engineer, you need at least a BSc

Dec 2025·Career

The software engineer career is dead

Dec 2025·Career

AI coding tools and the 5 stages of grief

Nov 2025·Career