Piotr Kafel

Last week I wrote a very detailed Slack message that took me 30 mins to write where I explained why certain architectural approaches are preferred in our systems. I got called out for generating it with AI and asked if I can summarize it in 20 words... What have we become 🙄

Banks: We will use AI to talk with customers so our support has lower volume of incoming request to handle! Ha! Me: Lets use AI to talk to banks AI in a way that leads to get a real person on the phone. Checkmate! 😅

5 pushups every time an agent is thinking! I dare you.

Yesterday worked on changes in code base. I had a very particular way I wanted to solve a problem. I described all the changes I want to make to Cursor. For the first time every AI told me "Nah bro, your suggestion is bullshit. Let me do it in a completely different way"🤯

Im currently reading The Devils by Joe Abercrombie... What a book 😂 “On the contrary, I am a great admirer of the tenets of your religion. I merely find it a shame that the Saved are, as a rule, so little like their Saviour.”

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I tried Claude's code review plugin yesterday... Aaaaaand all my tokens are gone 😅

Tip for vibe coders: If you are using Vercel (or other similar SaaS) remember to black list .md files. At least Vercel by default will make your claude.md publicly available.

I'm wondering if the natural grumpiness of Easter Europeans is one of the reasons why they are such good engineers (they always assume things will go wrong) 🤔

I cannot build frontend but I can build half decent backend. Since I have hired this guy, called Claude, building things is so much fun. I can focus on what I know and let him handle the UI. I need to write him a proper recommendation on LinkedIn. He has a bright career ahead❤️

"There are no shortcuts around quality and quality starts with people" Steve Jobs

Merry Christmas folks! I hope you will give your friends and family undivided attention instead of just checking from time to time if you agent finished implementation of next feature 😅

Found on the wall of Uber Arena in Berlin ❤️

AI just made programming fun again ❤️

I got bored by checking if my agent finished working and decided to implement some features myself... Like a damn savage!

We can now write code so fast that reviewing it becomes a bottleneck. Im looking forward to first company that will decide that AI based PR review is enough.

Writing code has never been this cheap

I just wrote: git stash poop How is your day going? 😂

Coffee with the view... Good morning!

This week I wrote an idempotent POST resource. Sue me!

So much of my liking a book depends on my schedule. I can read the most amazing book but if I got an important project I need to deliver there is no way I will like a book if I can read 1-2 chapters per week only.

Back in my days... Just joking, it's way before my days but it's pretty cool ❤️

Going for a run after sitting through the whole winter is such a pain 😰

I have enough of this winter... 🙄

All those companies that claim they will replace software engineers with AI are up for a nice surprise 😅

Just noticed @datadoghq is hiring Staff Engs in Germany. This is new, right? I havent seen engineering job offers from DD in Germany before 🤔

Have I mentioned that I will see @linkinpark this year? ❤️

My son infected me and my wife. Lovely end of a weekend.

I do not use Copilot or other Gen AI for writing code in my side projects if the purpose of them is learning. I will chat with ChatGPT but I need to write the code. Otherwise I do not feel like learning.

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I recently started to read some Go code which uses break instruction with labels to jump to a specific place in code. Thank god this is used mostly for getting outside of a loop but wow how unnatural for my brain this is.

Opening work Slack when on vacation is the worst decision ever 🙄

Oh boy... ❤️

New Pokemon Pocket expansion means more amazing art ❤️

This week, I decided to spice up my life... by going to the office twice! 🔥

Today I got defeated by Jira 🙄

Pokemon Pocket is a great simulation of what it means to collect real Pokemon cards. As of today there are 294 unique cards to collect plus around 30 promos and maybe 50 illustration rares. I have over 2100 cards and I'm still missing so many.

SRE topic I will have to talk with my teams for Monday: monitoring and alerting of crash looping K8 pods ⚠️

I'm excited for tomorrow as I have some really cool things to work on ❤️

What annoys me is that all the tutorials regarding implementing database of any sort on Github are either in Python or in Go.

What a beautiful Saturday to get paged for incident ❤️

Bing is indexing websites so much faster than Google

That feeling when you submitted last feedback ❤️

Friendly reminder 😅

I could be doing anything right now... ... but Im just sitting here writing sql lexer 😅 #MondayVibes

Today I attended a few meetings, wrote interview feedback and provided review cycle feedback for two of my colleagues. That's it. I really hope no one is measuring my performance by the number of lines of code 😅

Since the performance review season is here I would like to wish you all good luck! Fingers crossed for promotions and salary bumps! 🤞🏻

Over 10 years ago @peterthiel wrote this. When it comes to software engineering I believe this is still true.