Week #81

Its kind of a wired position to be a developer. People are talking about replacing or atleast questioning developers now. I am in awe, how a field that was the most harder to work in, suddenly gets bambolzed with little ghosts with token predicition machines. Just think about it, the industry that spent millions and billions in humans to solve problems is getting wiped out in months, if not weeks. I am scared!

Maybe it might just be the last year I be a software developer, might have to find other field to work in. Kind of feels tragic. People are making me even more scared. Do you know what to do as a software developer? A person who has spent half a decade in learning how to code, realises that the same thing can be generated in seconds. If there was an artist, who spent a decade in creating a painting, yet with AI does it take away his soul? No right? I also think coding is like the same, yet is the most least bothered thing. People don’t give a shit of how you solve the problem. And that hurts as a developer. It really does.

Quote of the week

Curiosity and Enthusiasm to learn cannot be diminished with any force of nature

I don’t know if this quote is true anymore. But I think, I will still cling to it. As again I don’t want to repeat it but being a developer the old way is no longer feasible or required or even admired. It is a new era of generation of code, you can’t start having attachment towards chilsed code, it can be replaced and generated in matter of seconds, with the right mind and intentions.

That’s why for those right mindset and intentions, a flickering fire of curiosity with a kindling touch of enthusiasm is a sustatinable approach. It might not be, for I don’t know what the future holds, I can just believe.

Read

  1. Stop using Icons in data tables

    1. This makes sense. Text makes it easy to view without the cognitive load and stuff. Really nice on the eyes too.

  2. Why is the sky blue

    1. Nothing tech, but a good article. I just like to read and don’t mind learning something out of the blue. And why actually is sky blue.

    2. I think more content should be like this, interdisciplinary and broad topics. People need to now think about overlapping things.

  3. I am happier writing code by hand

    1. For the past 6 months, I was, but after a few couple of months, it feels like people are no longer in sympathy with that feeling.

    2. There is no care for code, it was a art, well now it might be the lost art. I know it is hard for developers to accept it, but change is something we have in our blood. But man this is not change, it is just erasing the need to write code by hand. People are just managing this little agents instead of files now.

    3. Everything is a prompt they write, a little nudge is what they see instead of a little read. I don’t know where this is going, but it can’t be reverted, that is for sure, the drug is real and it can’t just stop.

  4. We mourn our craft

    1. Damm, every post I read is this. We might be the last generation who remember writing coded by hand. Wow! We are that last era.

    2. I don’t know to be proud of it or be scared. Its hard to see anything as a developer now. Am I just a prompt writer? Just a system person thinking about the problem or what even is the need to make products?

  5. Heroku is finally officially dead

    1. We saw in 2022 what happened and now this is the final nail in the coffin.

    2. PaaS king that stayed for half a decade now, is almost dead. Flyio and Railway are the new kings.

Watched

  • Sam Altman and Theo on the future of code

    • Its unncertain, but yes the learning problem in LLMs is qutie nasty.

    • It doesn’t have a constant memory like humans, but it has a good brain, which might be mometary, but exceeds the capacity of humans. Maybe that is a wired statement, but it lacks something humans have, yet has something that humans don’t.

  • Creator of Clawd on the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast

    • This is wild, he was always a nerd, a curious person. He has built a ton of things before many of his things have gone viral right? Maybe its not true for him.

    • Its kind of crazy how he has just made so many fame out of building something really valuable, but then it feels almost like anyone could have made it, a problem first mind comes into picture.

  • Agentic Coding has a problem

    • Yes, this is a problem I face, but I am not calling it a problem. I am not a fullstack guy yet, or atleast I don’t shift projects that radpidly.

    • I am using the same things I used to use, tmux/zellij and normal editor in my workflow. I love agent in the cli, its great, but now I realise it is a token hungry thing, you don’t see on the screen how much junk or slop it generates behind the scene, when suddenly your cursor prompt says, “Quota limit reached”. Yeah I have been there.

  • GLM 5 is a great model

    • This looks a leap in a good direction. Atleast we have a amazing open wieght model. Yes its not self-hostable, but we can use it to some very cheap price.

Learnt

I don’t know if I should learn anything anymore.

Yet, I have curiosity, but sometimes, the curiosity flame is wavered by a gust of doubt and guilt.

I still have a belief, I have a purpose. For that I will cease to die.

Tech News

  • Go 1.26 released

    • Does it matter? Yes it might.

  • GLM 5 Released

    • Really good to see open source models having such a neck-in-neck competition with the closed source labs. Worth voouching for.

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