AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers
AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.
AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder.
AI-generated code is other people's code. We've offloaded what developers are good at (writing) and kept the harder part (reading and reviewing), without the context we'd build by writing it ourselves.
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09.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Claude Code /insights ratted me out for yelling at my AI. Across 64 sessions it catalogued every wrong diagnosis, missing migration, and my "firm scolding".
New CLAUDE.md rules, hooks, and prompts based on the insights report.
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08.02.2026 05:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Egoless Programming: Greatest Hits - 30 Principles for Better Dev Team
30 egoless programming principles from Weinberg, Atwood, McKinley, and real dev team failures. Critique the code, not the coder - and 29 more.
Did a spit-take at some horrendous code. Wiped my monitor. Checked who wrote it. Me, 6 months ago.
That's when I started collecting egoless programming principles. Here's 30 of them.
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#Programming #DevLife #SoftwareEngineering
31.01.2026 09:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Code Review for Teams That Ship
A short guide to code review that actually works. For authors, reviewers, and team leads. No fluff.
Code Review for Teams That Ship
When the reviewer isn't spending cognitive load on things the author or CI should have caught, they can go deeper on the things that need human judgment.
How can we make it easier for each other?
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28.01.2026 11:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SBAO: Turn 5-Week Builds into 5 Hours – No Code Needed
How Signal-Based Adaptive Orchestration (SBAO) helped ship a production app in 5 hours with zero lines of code written manually.
Most people use AI wrong:
- One AI for everything = blindspots
- Multiple AIs for everything = slow
The unlock is knowing WHEN to escalate.
I call it Signal-Based Adaptive Orchestration.
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#ai #productivity #softwareengineering #workflow
20.01.2026 18:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
