A slow V60 pause

I relearn this every few months. Planning feels productive, but most of the time I'm just avoiding the work until I actually do the thing.

The plan is never the truth. Doing the work is.

Serious question: what MCP are you using in your dev workflow that has meaningfully improved how you code?

Coffee interlude

software engineering is closer to archaeology than most like to think

during the past few days onboarding at @buffer.com, I’ve been using AI more as a discovery tool than anything else

mostly to understand how things work and the decisions behind them

wild to think a few years ago this wasn’t even possible

honestly, what's interesting about coding agents isn't (just) the speed, it's the back and forth

you can question, explore, learn in ways that weren't easily possible before

I keep asking Claude/GPT not to implement stuff right away, just suggest a few options since they're usually too eager to write a wall of code

Helps me see things I might've missed, and that's how I solve problems anyway

Coincidentally, the best engineers I've worked with are also great reviewers

The fastest way to make a system fragile:

Copy a value into multiple places instead of deriving it

It always comes back to bite

Obvious, but worth saying: you grow more when you build something you actually use every day

If you never use it, you'll never really care

I keep coming back to this. A positive outlook shows up in how you think, how you talk, how you treat people. And that ends up shaping the people around you, and of course, the person you become.

In other words, choose your attitude carefully ☝️.

"LLMs taught users they can state intent in plain language and watch software act. Expectations shifted quickly."

The best part of working with great people is how much you get to learn, every day 😅

Small structural choices in TypeScript can have a big impact on performance ☝️

diegocasmo.github.io/2025-08-05-r...

LLMs have made me way pickier about how I write tasks

more specific, more edge cases, better notes

What an incredible time to be building software