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An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

September 24

The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Today, we cover: Writing code by hand: is it over?

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