tl;dr accomplished developer and consultant. Writing about tech, entrepreneurship and mental health. Last year at this time, I officially started my solopreneurship. This was an important moment for me. I closed the chapter about my burnout and the following depression. It wasn't easy, but I landed a client, and I was able to sustain myself. I had many different goals, but as usual, it took longer than expected to achieve them. Now, my professional site is live, and I have started writing actual content. I am still developing my product ideas. This is nothing singular or astonishing in itself. I know that. But overall, I am very glad to have started posting here, and I am still around, so expect more to follow. Feel free to follow and tell me what you are up to! cya ✌️

tl;dr learn how to build software I want to be frank. AI writes mediocre code. It's flawed. But, from what I know by experience, it's the same mediocrity you find out there. I am fascinated by AI because it's not worse of what I've seen in usual software projects. The truth is we have more C players than A players around. We need to make sure that we implement practices, so that AI doesn't get away with writing bad code. I am doing a QA sprint for one of my projects at the moment. The good thing is, that AI often sees that something is off. But it often doesn't see the issue. That's where a senior operator is needed. So, you don't need to learn DSA to become good with agents. But you need to learn how to continuously deliver software and how to keep it from breaking

People write posts like their prompts.

This might be the best outcome of the Fable mess.

While some are annoyed that their newest plaything has been taken away, I am wondering what the reduced access to AI technology means for the sovereignty of the world outside the US.

David Hockney was one of my favourite artists. His art was distinct, abstracted, yet expressive. rip

It's fascinating to hand off QA to your agents and see browsers plop up and things happening without you doing anything at all.

I had quite a good week. That's why I crack open a cold one and call it. Happy weekend, everybody! 🍻

Sure, these aren't potential customers unless you build for indiepreneurs. I don't see an issue in interacting with peers, though. You may call it procrastination, I call it engagement with specific experiences that I might learn from.

It's funny to see an agent blaming its sub-agents. "I told it to do so, but it ignored me." Sounds almost like coworkers talking about each other.

Post your stuff. Just do it. I was invited to a local meetup with decision-makers and tech professionals because of my posts. You never know who is reading.

I was at a meetup today. I met some decision-makers, and it is astonishing how much scepticism there is in the industry. The biggest paradox to me is that, on the one hand, they are unsure about hiring, but at the same time, they don't experiment with AI's capabilities.

When your capacity is limited, removing decisions isn't laziness. It's triage. You can't rebuild your system while the world demands you run it at full speed.

Code is the cheap part now. Meaning is the expensive part. The high-leverage artifact in your repo isn't the the function signature. It's the glossary, the architecture record, the explicit naming of the domain. The team that gets this first wins five years.

Debugging agent workflows feels like debugging my first apps. It doesn't work. Why? It works. Why?