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Dieser Sommer hat mich verändert. Das erste mal komme ich nach Hause nach einem Sommerurlaub und denke mir: ich hätte jetzt nichts gegen etwas Herbst wenn ich mir so die Pflanzen und Gärten in meiner Straße anschaue

This weekend was the weekend i created the "Billing" Domain in Erzeugerland. Since the advent of this project i said i do this when it will take less time writing the code than doing invoicing and everything around it manually. The day has arrived. Of course thanks to LLMs but also to growth.

i chose calisthenics to fix 10 years of severe sitting in front of a computer. i wake up go to the rings and do 30min of body weight training. today i started with the basics: push ups deep squats (australian) pull ups on the rings

youtu.be/mz_lG6SmgK0?... i thought a lot about this in the last week. especially after the brilliant talks at #gotocph25 in my own startup we have positive effects of ai coding and we have features where at the end i have to admit it slowed me down

this worked so much better and it made me question the promises of this technology. it is and will stay an integral part of my and our development process but as it gets the things 90% right it is not enough for complex business logic. for trivial uis no even more complex ones it is great! because

youtu.be/mz_lG6SmgK0?... i thought a lot about this in the last week. especially after the brilliant talks at #gotocph25 in my own startup we have positive effects of ai coding and we have features where at the end i have to admit it slowed me down

of course TDD has it baked in that you also refactor the tests as you learn about the domain. and the agent did it but only to make the tests pass not to make the implementation correct :-)

youtu.be/mz_lG6SmgK0?... i thought a lot about this in the last week. especially after the brilliant talks at #gotocph25 in my own startup we have positive effects of ai coding and we have features where at the end i have to admit it slowed me down

so i sat down and refactored our super naive caching system from the early days. long story short: i wrote a beautiful prompt project and worked with @briancasel.com agentos which made it much more enjoyable and a lot was done right thanks to it. my TDD approach worked! so it seemed at least…

youtu.be/mz_lG6SmgK0?... i thought a lot about this in the last week. especially after the brilliant talks at #gotocph25 in my own startup we have positive effects of ai coding and we have features where at the end i have to admit it slowed me down

and the funny thing is it happened at least 20 times throughout the codebase. one might argue after 5 attempts and updating the project md file the ai should be able to do it flawlessly but after a certain ceiling the returns of optimizing diminished and just reprompting and correcting was helpful

youtu.be/mz_lG6SmgK0?... i thought a lot about this in the last week. especially after the brilliant talks at #gotocph25 in my own startup we have positive effects of ai coding and we have features where at the end i have to admit it slowed me down

the thing that worked amazingly was transitioning from petal components to using daisy ui components as they are now the standard for phoenix apps. this was a lot of work. thanks to agentic coding we were done in a week. would’ve taken us months before. the base was even done after a few hours

youtu.be/CctJNYYCPo0?... This resonated a lot with me. @justinjackson.ca @briancasel.com do you want to take on max on the panel and discuss this topic. for me it’s clear AI will take us further for prototyping but software engineering? i still think it is a leap forward but not a new paradigm.

i was on my first in person tech conference this week. thanks to the great team of goto cph. such a beautiful community and week in copenhagen. got my signed extreme programming copy and saw a beautiful talk by @josevalim.bsky.social meeting your heroes can be magical