I think we should also be more ambitious with our dev tooling itself. To me, it doesn't seem like it's catching up with the new speed, and we're still reviewing PRs in a similar way, looking at code in the IDE. Shouldn't this revolutionize as well, at the same time?
Are you all using some completely new tools and workflows for the human work left of reviewing and understanding codebases?
No one is clearing the backlog right now, though. Every new change that's incoming is another 5,000 lines of change, and even if that solves the current problem at hand, it creates 5 new follow-up tickets for new edge cases that come from this huge change. At least that's the constant reality I see day to day.
Something very small and simple compared to other ambitious projects here :)
A TUI to control a crazyflie nano drone. This is mostly a rust learning project - but insanely fun because it leads to something flying through my living room.
Those are often also people who are in the company for a long time already, not only newly hired. I think AI makes it just so easy to be lazy.
I guess my hope with the face to face is that people take the feedback and learn to do the actual work again. Right now it feels like a lot of this kind of collaboration and what is okay and what no has to be figured out.
As everyone is an expert now[1] on paper I think it is unfortunately time for a shift again. For years I was big proponent of asynchronous remote work. But it seems like the only reasonable way forward is to discuss things face to face. I still prefer to prepare things async, but then discuss them in person to understand if people actually understand what they are talking about.
So far I also have a good time with really being frank and honest with colleagues if something is clearly AI expertise and not that persons expertise.
Mostly though if you do anything with the returned value at the call site you need to change that code anyways? If it is not just passing it on, and even then you might need to adapt its signatures. E.g. if you change from String | Null to String you remove the null handling. If you add Null you need to add Null handling?
But you will end up with something where you can say „this is mine, I did that“ for the rest of your life. Even if no one ever cares. I come back to some of the things I did in the past through hard labour (coding projects, skateboarding videos) and even if it is nice if others appreciate this, they are still always there for myself as sign of what I achieved.
I felt exactly the same, but recently started building side projects again in Haskell and fell in love again. Really brought my passion for software development back. 2026 feels perfect for that, as AI can help with things where one was stuck, not the stuck in a good learning way, forever in the past. Now is the time!
Same here it just feels like something so simple, I’d rather have it under my own control. That way I can keep it independent of claude as well. I use it for all kind of routine tasks like updating the summary of projects I am working on or tracking some personal activities. My setup looks like this: https://www.dev-log.me/click_recurring_tasks_for_claude/
That sounds awesome! I basically do all the same sports, but I always need to win or to get better at them. I am trying to move in your direction though.
Awesome, I am finding so little actual experience reports on this, if you build something similar, I'd be very happy to hear about how it's going. Feel free to reach out directly to me.
While working on a sideproject I explored lean 4 a bit and figured it actually something that can be very easily integrated into any project if one wants to prove correctness.
Nice thank you. If something came out of this that would be amazing. I am not the biggest fan of mcp, as they are a waste of tokens though. I shot you a message on LinkedIn as well, was wondering if this caused some discussion internally at Rewe because it was immediately blocked.
I tried copilot for a bit in vscode as well with opus and felt something was off. Somehow as if copilots harness around it just wasn’t as good. But I can’t give solid prove.
I just wish Claude code would also offer fast inline auto complete. Sometimes I’ll just want to have a function definition or some boilerplate spelled out without waiting for the slow Claude response. Or actively switching models.
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Maybe I can set up a shortcut for that?
It is extremely simple. I just tell Claude: "Use korb to look at my order history and create a table with my most frequently bought items. Next time, fill my basket with the items I always buy."
So something of that variation works.