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if you are high up at a company you probably miss the days when you coded and shipped features
you feel a crazy amount of exuberance now that coding agents return some of that back to you
it's a huge mistake to think this is somehow relevant to people working day to day
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I call it slop creep
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We gotta tune the AI hype-fluencers out of the feed.
It leads devs to think there's some AI silver bullet for coding.
It doesn't exist.
If I just use this MCP server, or run 20 subagents across terminals, or get the perfect rule crafted, only *then* will AI suddenly work!
Nah. It's not that easy. Building great software takes foundational knowledge and care. There isn't one specific thing you can do to take the quality of AI generated code and make it perfect.
Let me give you an example. If you ask "which MCP servers should I use?", have you first thought deeply about *why* that would even make the code generated better? Is it actually going to save you time?
If the MCP is just speeding up copy/paste for you, sure that might help some, but it's not going to fix the poor instructions you gave the model. The model might connect and integrate data from 20 MCP servers only to build the wrong thing.
Same thing with rules files. You know what makes great rules? Thinking deeply about your business requirements, system design, and personal preferences. It's kind of hard to outsource that. You can get inspiration from others and pick up some tips or suggestions, but this is a personal question for how *you* want to steer the model.
A great rules file for an agent *can* make the quality better. And certain MCP servers *can* make pulling in the right context much easier, hooking into bigger firehoses of data where you're looking for the needle in a haystack. But you only figure this out using AI to build real things and finding real edge cases.
Stay optimistic with a healthy dose of skepticism, my friends. These models and tools are *amazing*... and also software engineering is hard.
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The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey results are out!
In it:
- Most loved tools
- Most hated ones
- Most-used AI tools
- Most-mentioned IDEs and terminals
- Version control, CI/CD
Devs LOVE VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and... Cursor! (and tend to hate JIRA)
Read it here (cont'd):
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Almost all the tech guys I know who were working two jobs a couple of years ago are jobless, while those who focused on one job have been promoted and are earning more than what those two jobs brought the other guys.
Stop the short term thinking.
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Verve hits 70 million payment cards in Nigeria, consolidates market leadership.
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All of you that say “there is no money in 9-5”, come and see oh.
Annual earnings of 200 million naira, and even up to 2 billion naira for one person. In one year!
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There are several developer/tech people archetypes I've experienced in my career and you have to know when and how to approach them with new ideas.
1. The yes person - Somebody who can tell you all of the ways to make your idea better.
2. The no person - The person that will tell you all of the reasons your idea will fail.
Both perspectives are very valuable. The trick is knowing what archetype you are talking to and how to use both sets of information to make your idea better.
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"Exceptional software engineering skills come from practice, and if you are not writing production code as a manager, you are not [really] practicing, and as such, you are not getting better at it."
#technology #tech #innovation #engineering #technews
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I don Dey receive requests; this is level 3 (check my site to know what level 3 means) cutting dears! SNIP SNIP!
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We're thrilled to roll out our pivotal integration with @OPay_NG through our #InterswitchPaymentGateway (IPG), which effectively enables OPay users to seamlessly make direct payments for goods and services on merchants' websites from their OPay Wallets.
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This was the same argument people once made when GSM licenses were about to be given. Some said there should be more landlines since people could not afford cell phones. AI is transcendental tech. A Brazilian startup I know was doing regular data collection and stumbled on diagnosis using Google Vision. Now, all hospitals in Brazil use their tech and it has saved them a lot of money.
Yes, we MUST have a strategy for AI because it will use our data whether we like it or not.
