• Laracast cut off 40% of the workforce, sad again AI in the hunt, after tailwind this is sad.
• They are producing more content but the way he thinks about code is changing.
• The important thing that hits me is Agentic Coding doesn’t drain mind. Is this true? I don’t think so. I feel like when I used to program, I thought about what to do, then plan it out, and actually writing the code would give me a buffer, a mental buffer to calm my mind from the actual cognition, it triggered a different part of my brain. But right now with agentic coding, the phase is too short, and it doens’t trigger different parts of the brain, I have to review code which I am learning to, but it feels like I am getting too much load on the thinking part without actually taking a detox from it. It might be just me but this I need to change.
• Maybe this was the next iteration of programming, no one knows, but a good thing to see people admit.

Amp Inc. Raising Agents: Episode 9

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wjnV6F2arc

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Writing code by hand is over? There will be things where you will have to write the code, but like assembly it can just do things, like give me a cake It doesn’t need the recipe, or hand holding of each task, it can just do it Taste it even and then check if its burned or not, it has a taste or evaluation thing as well It can think about things You need to make the codebase ready for agentic ready It needs harness for testing, good documentation, edge cases, actual problem it solves

Claude Cowork

Link: https://youtu.be/D-tuQNPp0WY

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Again, I was tempted to learn how different people perceive this tool. I never watched her videos. But this video came to me at random and I thought of watching it, it was fun. It also showed a good starting point and a legit use cases for people to curse themselves a little less with such tools. Developers can do it with writing scripts but laymen can’t oooohhh. This tool should just do that.

Claude Cowork: AGI is here, hheh?

Link: https://youtu.be/IcQEaopx90g

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I loved the video. It showed the flaws and the possibilities of this tool. I think its a step in the AGI, but good or bad, the people will decide. The edit button on twitter, that had me rolling out loud. It was a human-esque reply though. “I can see the edit button therefore I am logged in as ABC person” True. Good thinking Claude. Hope you continue in a limited set of thinking.

Its time to change your database - from Supabase to Convex

Link: https://youtu.be/B6C-MWCFfAg

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Nested code fences in Markdown

Link: https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html

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This is clever. Never knew this. I think this clears the rule of when to escape the backticks and the fenced code block within one. Really nice to know this. Helps in writing as well as developing a SSG.

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The bet on juniors just got better

Link: https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-bet-on-juniors-just-got-better

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This is fair. The bet on junior aka me was that I will take the ownership. And this previous year I did. They might have gotten the payback but not quite like AI. The thing that AI might miss is reliability. Not availability. If something goes wrong, I can wake up and roll in. But if some non-informed developer or AI does it, there it could get into a different rabbit hole. I think the more quickly you can show your eagerness to solve problem, actual user problems the better the bet payoff would be. Its not rocket science but is easier said than done.

The challenges of soft delete

Link: https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html

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Nice read. I had experienced it in my first internship. This problem of dead objects. Especially if you are using Django and Postgres. It looked easy to add a field of soft deletion. But the resulting queries could create bottlenecks. Since then I haven’t quite gotten the chance to explore this, this article showed me the different ways to implement the soft deletion.

The joy of being a competent beginner

Link: https://xydinesh.com/posts/joy-of-competent-beginner/

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This is really well put. Very relatable. We all have started with some quick competence at something in the beginning and then ignored or abandon after some familiarity of it. This exactly lists why we do that, and the reason is that going beyond that beginner competence is a steep learning curve, initially you are fast but then quickly hit a wall. Most of them give up, the ones that stick, are the ones that somewhat develop a mastery or sort of craftsmanship in the art.

The toil of blog art

Link: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-toil-of-blog-art

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Yes, the art of expressing some concept is valuable. AI might have eased it, but true human-eque art is impossible to replicate. The chef’s kiss is what the author is trying to meld in the post about.

Source: techstructive-weekly-78