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- August is the last month of my employer’s financial year, which means preparing for annual appraisals just as everyone is using up their leave – and this is on top of client work. While I’m enjoying being busy, it’s also been tiring.
- We finished off our internal Summer of Q, where about 40 of us explored agentic AIs for coding. It’s one of several things I need to write up before I forget about them. I love working with agentic AI, but doing it effectively will take some more work.
- I continue to think about Sean Goedecke’s essays on value, alongside his one on Pure and Impure Software Engineering. I’m mentioning Goedecke in most of my weeknotes recently. I have been rereading some of his pieces and want to put them into practise when I start a new role in September.
- My new role involves React, so it’s time to get to grips with that properly.
Links
- From Noah Brier’s Things I think about AI: “If models didn’t progress from what we have today, we’d still have 10 years of runway to integrate their value into corporations and society.”
- I’m not convinced that about the power of agentic coding with tools like Kiro and AmazonQ. But I do think there is a use for small, focussed tools. Bill Mill gives a good example of this with a code review tool.
- Two good checklists on agentic coding techniques: