A Year of Watching AI Closely It’s been a while since I last wrote here. This year has been intense in many ways, and as it comes to an end, I feel the need to reflect on one hard-to-ignore topic: AI, not from a hype perspective, not from a futurist angle, but from the everyday reality of actually using it — especially in engineering work. This year, I mostly focused on Anthropic models using Claude Code or Cline. ...
During one of my interviews in late 2023 - early 2024, a person asked me: “Who cares about the language we choose or frameworks or type system… all that matters is a working product”. I wrote about it already, but I used a clumsy analogy with building a house. Recently, however, the internet (or at least, the algorithms that take care of my YouTube feed) started buzzing with news about the problems at Boeing. ...
I chose the railway photo for the cover for a reason. TypeScript as a type system has many powerful and unique features. But people often do not know about them or neglect them. In this post, I want to highlight some common escape hatches that people use and why they make TypeScript feel like bloated JavaScript. More often than not, we use TypeScript as bloated JavaScript. For example, { options: Record<string, string> } I would argue that this is why people keep saying that TypeScript doesn’t add much value. In fact, this type tells me (or the users of my code) nothing about what the options are. Consider another example: ...