/tags/engineering/ Recent content in Engineering on Agoston Fung Hugo en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/ai-fatigue-is-real/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/ai-fatigue-is-real/ Running agents instead of writing code felt like 10x productivity. Then I broke, and needed 4-6 weeks to recover. /posts/gui-is-dead-long-live-agents/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/gui-is-dead-long-live-agents/ Command line, thick clients, the web, and now agents. The interface itself is starting to look optional. /posts/ai-can-rewrite-your-legacy-app-in-hours/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/ai-can-rewrite-your-legacy-app-in-hours/ Big-bang rewrites used to be a bad idea for good reasons. AI agents just changed the math. /posts/i-vibe-coded-a-sudoku-app/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/i-vibe-coded-a-sudoku-app/ AI can write all the code. It still can’t magically create a great product - the taste has to come from somewhere else. /posts/seven-strategies-for-safe-ai-agent-database-access/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/seven-strategies-for-safe-ai-agent-database-access/ Unrestricted database access for AI agents is dangerous. Excessive restrictions defeat the purpose. Here’s how to find the middle ground. /posts/being-a-software-engineer-is-weird-at-family-dinners/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/being-a-software-engineer-is-weird-at-family-dinners/ My team spent years automating £50 million in promotional income. A three-day Sudoku app got me a standing ovation at dinner. /posts/pressure-reveals-patterns/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/pressure-reveals-patterns/ Under stress, people fall into a handful of default patterns - and pressure is the fastest way to find out who you’re actually working with. /posts/the-ai-honeymoon-is-over/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/the-ai-honeymoon-is-over/ The real cost of AI writing code is starting to show - what the data is telling us about the human/AI balance in software work. /posts/i-review-the-thinking-not-the-code/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/i-review-the-thinking-not-the-code/ 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. /posts/my-ai-productivity-4200-lines-per-day/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/my-ai-productivity-4200-lines-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. /posts/to-be-an-engineer-you-need-at-least-a-bsc/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/to-be-an-engineer-you-need-at-least-a-bsc/ Five myths I’ve wrestled with over 20 years in software - degrees, imposter syndrome, burnout, career breaks, and the days you hate coding. None of them are true. /posts/the-software-engineer-career-is-dead/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/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. /posts/ai-coding-tools-and-the-5-stages-of-grief/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/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.