Tag: 2026
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Tokens are My NOS Kit
If you can remember this scene from Fast&Furious, Walker fires the NOS kit to give his car a power bump mid-race. Incredible imagery. NOS is gas that increases engine’s combustion giving it more power for a handful of seconds. In other words, it’s not a permanent increase in power. Once the NOS intake reduces, the…
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Start with admin.*
I remember the influence of “Getting Real” — the book from the folks at 37 Signals — in my early web development projects back in the day. The message was simple and clear: start at the core process of the application, preferrably at the UI level, and then expand both sideways to other connecting processes…
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No More Large Monitors
Little by little I’m emancipating myself from tech dead weight. Agentic software development defined a new workflow, new tooling and, why not?, new hardware setups. Starting this month I’m retiring my 32 inch 4K monitor I used in so many software development projects. Have a split window in the IDE was a strong operational need.…
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Racing Mind
I’ve never read so few books as I do now. After 15 minutes of reading, my mind races back to my projects. So, I’m having to pick the ones I’m really interested in. I’ve developed a tactic that has been working when I lose sleep: writing. I just go to the living room and start…
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Functional Misalignment due to Agent Hallucination
I saw this image posted on X with reference to a development team losing substantial volumes of work due to agent hallucination. I noticed something similar in my work, and I really emphasize the similar here. It’s similar in the sense that there is complexity of all sorts being added continuously to codebases. Some of…