You’re not burning out, you’re essentially starving

Link: https://neilthanedar.com/youre-not-burnt-out-youre-existentially-starving/

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This was a good one When you truly chase your highest potential, everything you thought was burnout will melt away. Because you weren’t suffering from too much work, you were suffering from too little truly important work. Like a boy who thought he was full until dessert arrives, you’ll suddenly find your hunger return! Some really good points Pause once a month to make sure you’re still on the right track. Stop once a year to triple-check you’re on the right track. But never get off this path towards your highest potential. Anything else will starve you existentially This is true We’re optimizing for less suffering instead of more meaning. Yes I woke up today so excited to get to work thinking it was Monday morning already. Instead of jumping right into it, I spent all morning making breakfast and playing with my kids, then wrote this post. When I’m writing about something personal, 1,000+ words can easily flow for me in an afternoon. Just read the post!

Deliver Code you have proven to work as a software developer

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

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Right on! So true. merging slop without review, even slightly running against a manual test case can give you a good confidence and make you a good engineer. With more code being generated and as easy as a command, it becomes rather intimidating to review code, to accept suggestion and produce more code. But code is not a magic wand its some assumptions crumpled with logical validation, both of them contradict yet when done right, creates a software that people use and breathe. I agree to the manual as well as automated testing and LLMs will follow the pattern. If you already have tests in the codebase, it will make sure the test suite is updated when it makes a new change. There are obvious and unavoidable circumstances when you’d have to check the changes with manual test, its something that comes with the plate in the software engineering role. There is no denying in this, its a fact not an opinion. Software and accountability is opposite side of a coin, you can’t let software account on its own, humans have bought its existence from their imaginations and manifestation, you need to validate and prove the thing you wanted to build.

Duplicate Reports

Link: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/duplicate-reports

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Testing guys is the vibe of AI, testing code is becoming apparent as AI can produce code in matter of seconds. Learning the fundamentals has never been so vital.

Source: techstructive-weekly-73

Gemini 3 Flash

Link: https://youtu.be/rddX4GEeyvE

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Wired model. Gemini vibes. But it does something good. It is fast. Hell fast from GPT 5.2 and what was that 3 Pro, what slow lazy models those are.

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Mostly Technical: Hearts and Minds

Link: https://youtu.be/P-fKp3eS5CA

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Boy I have some thoughts here. Aaron’s AI Stack > Claude Opus 4.5, Amp Code, Code Rabbit for review Ship code, no one cares how its done Have an idea > research > plan > throw it to AI > look at it, stare at it > ship it What is the perfect abstraction, no, what can I get shipped. I like to code, but I loved implementing ideas, now its easier to code with AI, it knows the patterns and abstractions. You have to eyeball the code slop it generates. AI to check in AI, I was too not sure of, but lately the Seer bot from Sentry is so cool, it picks up grave stuff. You need the human, flavour is the juice. People can produce code, but not software, you have to have a point of view I have more then ever to build, the need of software engineers is going to get more. Maybe, I don’t know. They would need a person who can steer them. Its a great time to study systems, and not specific frameworks. Argh I hate to say that, but I disagree here. We need to know the tools, not specificity but still, humans are nerdy people they can’t live without doing or learning something, even if that is pointless. Learning Systems, true, I agree wholeheartedly to that. Maybe he means in the terms of content creation. People are not going to watch or read such specific guides to tech framework and tools, but broader skills than technical details. But I still think having the knowledge of specific tech or tool will give you the edge over the one slopping and producing slop when the time comes. Human’s shared experience is something I am starting to consume more. Or rather consuming just that. No one likes AI slop, look at hackernews, people are reading experiences of x person using y ai tool to get things done. The point of Aaron on shared experience on Pride and Prejudice written by human, is something people are still consuming and talking about after a decade or more. But what about PaLM? Do you remember the model? Noooo. We need human connection. The idea train from Ian is contagious, I am running it something on my brain to think of something to make in SQL or some code.

Stop crawling my html, use the API

Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/

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This is so funny, the API is in front of the user.. No LLM, but its so lazy to hit the API. Maybe we need another protocol for how AI should scrap data from websites, but scrapping is a thing that doesn’t have a standard, or rather no one would follow it.

Source: techstructive-weekly-73

The strange case of engineers who dismiss AI

Link: https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/19/the-strange-case-of-engineers-who-dismiss-ai/

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Source: techstructive-weekly-73

The time elemet that should actually do something

Link: https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/14/the-time-element-should-actually-do-something/

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Another div without a functionality problem. People create standards and forget to adhere. We have so many protocols, people and developers follow them, but there could be places where no one’s actually paid any attention. I am surprised there is no element to depict a time for an search engine to rely on, it relies on external factors like datepublished and other in the schema, wired. Even Google doesn’t care about this tag! Pathetic.

A TSP game I wanted for 10 years: built in 4 hours

Link: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2025/12/08/a-tsp-game-10-years-in-the-making-built-in-4-hours/

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This is quite a good thing, I am not good at frontend, i let ai do it, i do what i am good at, writing backend. Really? need to see it carefully again.

Source: techstructive-weekly-72

Craft Software that make people feel something

Link: https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/

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So good. Just do it because there is a curiosity. Inspiration is also cool and need for software to make. > When programming becomes repetitive, the odds of you creating something that makes people go “wow” are reduced quite a bit. It isn’t a rule, of course. You need to be inspired to make inspiring software. This is aspiration, the level of it is high here. > This is what I’m talking about: taking time to build something so that once people try it, they remember it for as long as they live.