Link: https://youtu.be/9CrlA0Wasvk
Why everyone needs to inject AI to help someone use AI? WHY? Kafka is just a stream processing library, why just not keep it as is, why try to slop it with AI and sell it like a AI support and what not.
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Why The Dream of Asynchronous Work Is Burning the Project Budget
Link: https://www.arturhenriques.com/p/asynchronous-work-is-the-enemy-of
Maybe this is true. Collaboration and Communication is key, I don’t think its about being asynchronous from each other. Its about being able to flexibly decide that, give enough brain space to understand and sit with the problem, to let developers cook (as in think and do their own stuff).
Source: techstructive-weekly-63
Link: https://youtu.be/fJS2Crq-8qU
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He has heard the whispers, âhe is getting older, who will replace him?â People asking him with a straight face, âwhen will you retire?â After close to 25 years at Amazon, where each year has been different and amazing, He feels as young as …
Link: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/better-with-age.html
This one was really soothing one. The older developer isn’t worried about the barrage of new model announcements and feature releases that come out every week. He’s seen that before. New tech, same patterns. And this one Have an in-depth conversation with your customer, listen, dive deep into their challenges, suggest architectures, migrations, and tools. And sometimes, the solution will be generative AI.
We're fed an endless stream of consternation over AI slop these days. The content apocalypse is nigh! It'll rot your brain! Okay, sure, maybe, but have you seen the kind of content sludge that perfectly ordinary humans are capable of producing? It's …
Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/give-me-ai-slop-over-human-sludge-any-day-8c4b747d
True. I can see this over X, Youtube, people create cringe worthy content. AI content yet lifeless, can said to be informational the least. That also has cringe element but a little lesser I think.
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A story about how Claude, an AI coding agent, solved a complex Terraform schema bug in mirrord not by brute force, but by reasoning its way out with a helper script it wrote for itself.
Link: https://metalbear.com/blog/claude-experience/
Yes, this is true. A year worth time in 2025, we can say, AI Agents or AI-assisted coding has become really powerful and steerable. I also was skeptical on those AI-vibe coding apps. But then came in Cursor and took us by storm. WIndsurf, and what not VS code clones took over.
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Link: https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-projects
Agreed to this. It is truly valuable. Have something to make you go ahead, let that good dopamine hits. If you are doing the backend, add unit test, print stuff out to see the progress. Yes, sometimes experience hurts. And having the perfectionist mindset might be a little harsh.
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Link: https://yossarian.net/til/post/python-s-splitlines-does-a-lot-more-than-just-newlines/
Wow, I knew this, but realising it again as I forgot how split and splitlines is like a magic function. You never know you need that level of magic at times, but sometimes you do. This is something I love and hate about python.
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One of the great advantages of having junior developers on the development team is that they aren’t senior developers.
Link: https://www.infoworld.com/article/4065771/why-we-need-junior-developers.html
Yes, there is no other way round. The fresh perspective is really needed to a new revolution in technology. The existing mindset, the mental model might not allow the freedom and might offer a bit of resistance to adoption and leverage of those tools.
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Link: https://raheeljunaid.com/blog/advice-for-developers/
This is valuable. I would add, a few more points. Don’t hold yourself back in diving deeper, if you find something interesting, go in all the way. You’ll find yourself in a much better place then others. Just do things, there is no reason to avoid things. Just patch one library, because you thought it was bugging you, just implement a markdown parser from scratch just because you feel the need to learn the process, don’t hold yourself back just because you’d think people would judge you, they will judge you anyways.