How I use AI to review every pull request
An agent reviews every pull request before a person does. What it checks, what it refuses to say, and why a false blocking finding costs more than a bug.
A journal on software engineering, leading teams, and whatever else is on my mind.
Thoughts, lessons, and observations across work and life, newest first.
Coffee is over
One working day, hour by hour, with the internet talking over it. What being a software engineer actually feels like when nothing goes according to plan.
My first experiences as a developer
I had no computer until I was 18 and picked IT because it looked like it would pay. What the first years actually taught me.
Avoiding duplicated decisions, in Laravel and beyond
The expensive duplication is not copy-pasted code. It is the same decision made in four places, by four people, none of whom copied anything.
What code comments are actually telling you
A comment explaining what code does is usually an apology for not writing it clearly. The three comments actually worth keeping, and why the rest lie.
Is a programming degree still worth it in the age of AI?
When AI can build entire features in seconds, the four-year computer science syllabus is completely obsolete. What learning to build software takes today.