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Ant ๐ŸŒˆ (they/them)

@antjanus

I'm a #developer and a #writer. they/them. non-binary.

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Anthropic themselves found that vibecoding hinders SWEs ability to read, write, debug, and understand code. not only that, but AI generated code doesnโ€™t result in a statistically significant increase in speed donโ€™t let your managers scare you into increased productivity. show

Anthropic themselves found that vibecoding hinders SWEs ability to read, write, debug, and understand code.

not only that, but AI generated code doesnโ€™t result in a statistically significant increase in speed

donโ€™t let your managers scare you into increased productivity. show
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Ever wonder what your coding agent is trying to do when running awk? Well, I added a new Demystifying Awk article to my demystifying tools series: antjanus.com/demystifying-tโ€ฆ

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Whenever I join a company that doesn't use Jira, it's always a shitshow and they always switch to Jira + Confluence. Why? Because the pain of not having any PM system (or having an "indie" PM system) is greater than the pain of using Jira. Every time. :/

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1. squash your changes into 1 commit 2. create a fresh up-to-date branch 3. cherry-pick the squashed commit 4. ??? 5. Profit or, just start over and use the original branch as inspiration. This kind of thing happens all the time, tbh.

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With AI it's even easier -- create a fresh branch and tell your agent the Git SHA of the original commit and then ask it to incorporate it in the updated codebase. It does fairly well with this kind of work!

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That's totally understandable. Whenever I've used Claude Code fully and paid for the tokens directly, I averaged around $1K/week. Let's call it $4K/month. That's a hefty price for very little productivity improvements. Especially compared to improving business processes instead.

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Itโ€™s been my experience that coding isnโ€™t really the bottleneck of sr (and above) engineers. Mostly because majority of our work isnโ€™t writing code but everything else around that process.

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Thereโ€™s always going to have to be someone that tells AI what it should do. Maybe weโ€™ll all become highly-technical PMs instead of engineers?

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Iโ€™ve been steadily building out Skillbox, my skills repo, and just added a new SKILL.md: Code Reviewer. Itโ€™s based on my real-world PR review experience, plus what Iโ€™ve learned using Claude Code for code reviews. Take a look: github.com/AntJanus/skillโ€ฆ

Iโ€™ve been steadily building out Skillbox, my skills repo, and just added a new SKILL.md: Code Reviewer.

Itโ€™s based on my real-world PR review experience, plus what Iโ€™ve learned using Claude Code for code reviews.

Take a look:

github.com/AntJanus/skillโ€ฆ