Week #93

It was a work heavy and cozy week, had a long weekend. AI is here, going nowhere, so trying to learn it as much as I can. Its a bit of a tricky phase of world, nobody is sure what is the right way and what is a tumbling down hill. It is usually is like that in life, but this is extreme, people are questioning their existence and stating that AI is conscious, as we even don’t know what conscious means.

Quote of the Week

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
— Rumi

This is such a lovely quote. I try to keep quite as much as possible, I am shy that is a different point. But I feel there is no need to speak in most of the situations, it just feels waste or just sugar coating. Maybe I am a bit blunt, I speak only when I feel something is wrong or the situation is out of hand.

But when we are quite, not just in the literal sense, from the mind, the thoughts are quieter, we can observe more carefully and open-mindedly. It is a reason why I can see and feel things many can’t. To be able to hear someone or something, you need to calm your self and the mind first, assumptions kills more things than anything else. The bias and the pre-concieved knowledge hurts more than bad knowledge.

Read

Surprisingly I didn’t read much this week. I spent more time working with the clankers. It was a bit unsettling at first, but then it becomes a habit to delegate everything to it. That doesn’t mean I didn’t read at all, I just didn’t read tech-related stuff. I read 2 book on the long weekend, all cozy and korean-japanese style lofi books. Because I just need a bit of time to escape this technical jungle. I don’t hate being there, but sometimes a fresh air is required to sustain. I read “Every day I read” and “The housekeeper and the Professor”, beautiful books.

  1. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer more than I had like

    • This is true. The agents are producing so much code that a human cannot even keep up to. But that shouldn’t be a excuse to not learn what the changes have been made. At this point its about slowing down and letting ourselves savor what LLMs in the past 3 years have made us.
    • The other part is very interesting of not getting concerned about being replaced as a developer. The analogy of plumber hits right.
    • If one can quickly plumb his house things, why even hire a plumber. But we know that we don’t like doing that so we hire him eventually. But can this be true for software too, it has been the most sort of thing that bugs people. Coding is not trivial, yes writing code has become due to AI, but code was not the bottleneck. The patience level of a developer, the ability to reason through, to find the gaps, to have a taste, to understand human sentiment, it is what truly makes a true software developer if not less. And that AI would never be able to do (atleast for the next year maybe)

  2. We programmed a program to program new programs (2011)

    • Imagine being 15 years ahead of time
    • Just banger. How can one have written this is 2011, what a pscyhosis moment for him/her it would have been.

Watched

  • Andrej Karapathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

    • That was a good interview. His examples are great. The Menu Gen. Maybe its peak AI.
    • The analogy of custom UI was just min blowing, we wont fret over a bug, we will be fighting with versions now! Ew I don’t like where this is going.

  • What’s Next for Software Tracking and Git?

    • Oh, codeberg, forgejo. That sounds familiar, I thought we might not need them. Oh! GitHub’s normal always available has just made me delusional I think. Yes that hurts, that we can view a person’s history over decades. Pufff! Gone.
    • The hiring for new software developers looks a little worisome. What will people look at? I know GitHub profile is not a metric, but still it showed the person’s familiarity with dealing with software.

  • DHH’s new way of writing code

    • This is a bit off putting. I thought he might say, AI is joke, its a fad. Sigh!
    • The point that, I felt like engineering manager I though I need to manage people, but these AI Agents are different. I agree. If it would have been something like a real managerial work, I might have died the moment I had to do that. Some things are just not someone’s piece of cake.
    • Yes AI Agents are really addictive. But yes health and family comes first still.
    • The teams moving ahead might be leaner, there is no doubt, but the problem would be still the same, solve actual problems. There will be a explosion of business if that is the case, because it has to balance it out. More people in a company, less companies, less people in a company, more companies? I think this logic might work in the next 5 years?

  • Why AI Agents are tither the best or worst thing we’ve built

    • That is wild. Absolute carnage.
    • AI Agents are a good thing, but as anything, it depends on how people use it. Like internet, like social media and intelligence. If set in people’s hand this can do crazy things.
    • The open claw moment is really the point for people to show the vastness and the craziness of what uncontrolled AI can do, the lethal trifiecta, Simon Wilison trademark.

  • Am I Crazy? Wading Through AI Episode 3

    • Yes, I am crazy. These is a hype. It won’t make you a 10x, 100x developer. If that is the case then a person can do a year’s worth of work in a week. That is impossible. Because if that is the case, then send him on a vaccation for the rest of the year, have we seen that? Sine the work is done, he can rest in peace. But no! They give excuse of more work.
    • This is really a bit of hype. It will make you productive sure. But not the numerical one. It will help you massively in certain tasks, but slow you down terribly in others. Right task and the right tool still holds.

  • Volatile keyword in Java

    • I don’t know why but I like java now. It is more verbose, means lesser chance of messing things up, no assumptions while writing. Thought that could mean there are more bugs since if we write more, it can mean more area for edit. But I like learning things, and Java is a bit challenging coming from Python.
    • The volatile keyword makes the variable read from the actual CPU instead of the cache. It brodcasts that the value has been changed and the thread has to invalidate the cache and later when it requires it, it fetches it fresh from the CPU.

Learnt

  • Software can be made easily now, but that doesn’t mean people want to right?

    • Like the analogy from Simon Wilison on plumbing. You can learn how to plumb your house with youtube or learn to code by AI, write that software vibe coded. But if its really important to you, and don’t want any issues, you probably want to hire a plmber or a developer right?
    • Maybe the thing for software just breaks because no one cares what is underneath the software. But do we? If we use a pen to write things. We forget that there would be a person designing it, yes it was “made” in a factory, but its existence is due to a human’s thoughts and imagination, the care, the empathy for others.

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That was it from the week 93. Time flies…

I don’t know what to do this weekend. Reading books, working with clankers, trad coding. Overwhelming is a thing in 2026 for developers. Whatever it is, you’d see something interesting in the week #94. The 2 year anniversary of this newsletter is 2 month away. Wow! 100 editions never knew I would complete them.

See ya next week, until then…

Happy Clanking ;)

Happy Coding :)