narrator: the systems were, in fact, not operational at all

This explains why my coding agents experience is usually better than others

At ChargebackStop, we've been preventing and fighting chargebacks for our customers for close to two years. But last month we got our first ever chargeback against... ChargebackStop? Here's what happened: 1/ Customer signed up for the service 2/ Signed a contract 3/ Engaged

1. study a market 2. pick a position that is good and unoccupied 3. turn your brain off 4. build ship fix repeat longer than everyone else this is all that's needed - you don't need to constantly put out intellectual thoughts on your vision and predictions and the future

Not insignificant chunk of my energy is spent on figuring out what time it is in the UK at any given moment every day

Slack doing me dirty

Whenever I’m feeling down, I cheer myself up with the fact that at least I’m not listening to AI music at that moment

Granola summing up all CEE engineers

Absolutely mind boggling to stop and realise: 1) I barely code anymore, just chat with an AI. 2) It’s not slop. I’m still engineering. I don’t feel threatened. Feels like pair programming. 3) I’m enjoying it more than coding by hand. Truly wild time to be living through.

It's somewhat validating to see Claude Code struggle with the same testing and mocks setup I used to spend hours on

Being able to recognise one of the 10-15 design templates RL'd into Claude/Codex is a bit of a curse

GPT-5.4 internal dialogue is… interesting

Can someone remove “hand-waving” from Codex system prompt, I’ll pay $500 to never see this phrase again