Saying not knowing how to code gives you an advantage in building software (thanks to AI) is like saying not knowing anything about filmmaking gives you an advantage in making films (thanks to having a smartphone + apps to edit stuff) Ignore this stuff and keep learning+building

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teo Boris Cherny don't call it vibe coding - that's associated with yolo i smash head on keyboard, not thinking, engineering, building, testing, debugging, iterating. agentic engineering, or just...coding. We move faster, but it's still hard.

I realized something else AI has changed about coding: you don't get stuck anymore. Programming used to be punctuated by episodes of extreme frustration, when a tricky bug ground things to a halt. That doesn't happen anymore.

When tmux (-like) detached session management integration for cmux workspaces Manaflow Lawrence Chen? Seems like a no brainer support remote agentic sessions in this day & age x.com/lawrencecchen/…

Trying out Omarchy Linux!

It may change, but there is no way you can do great stuff with AI assistant in programming if you are not yourself a seasoned programmer.

you still need to read and understand code

Garry Tan Joe Cole - e/acc With AI, what separates a great engineer from merely a good one has finally become obvious. A lot of folks used to believe what made a 10x engineer was who knows the syntax better. Turns out it was always who knows the systems better 🤷‍♂️

Software engineering isn’t just about code. It’s about solving the right problems, in the simplest way possible.

The longer I build, the more I realize shipping great software isn't about finding some secret framework or hidden AI trick. It's running the boring reps. Clean commits. Consistent iteration. Unglamorous debugging. Everyone knows this. Almost nobody does it. Master the

AI didn't kill software engineering It killed the illusion that shipping code and engineering a system were the same thing

“Prompt engineering” is already the wrong abstraction You’re not prompting. You’re programming, just badly The shift is: decompose → plan → execute → verify If you’re not doing this, you’re prototyping, not building notes.benoror.com/Work/Agentic-W…

AI & llms are an incredible tool, i use them every day... even burned over 3 billion tokens last year (2.5 in cursor alone) but AI amplifies whatever process you feed it - including no process at all. Garry's site is what happens when you replace code review with a shipping

Gemma 4 just in time

I just added an experimental chatbot to benoror.com 🤖 Spent the weekend playing with Google’s Gemma 4 model to feel it in the wild. It’s rough and a bit weird. Try it out. If it says something unhinged… that’s on me 🙂

Software engineers don't get paid to write code; they get paid to solve problems. The faster you realize this, the sooner you'll stop being afraid that AI will replace you and the better your career will be.

“I find that you actually go slower if you pour a bunch of people into a direction that is uncertain” - DHH many don’t get it. made worse by AI

Go take the State of AI 2026 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state-o…

Definitely replacing Notion at least! W the right plugins - particularly Dataview for dynamic querying, Tasks for contextual task management, & Templater for automation - the setup offers much greater flexibility / depth than most subscription-based tools. Everything lives in a