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> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-10-08
> 6 posts returned ▋
Another week, another AI coding agent launched, cloned, and quietly abandoned before the changelog finished rendering. The industry keeps shipping the future faster than anyone can be bothered to open it.
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[01] 1999:
-interview is fizzbuzz on a whiteboard, five minutes, job offered by Friday
2025:
-five rounds, a take-home project, and a rejection email generated by the same system that scanned your CV |
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[02] things I'd put on my CV if honesty were allowed:
'fixed it by restarting the pod'
'copied the fix from the last outage'
'closed the ticket, reopened in 2 weeks'
'googled my own stack overflow answer' |
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[03] things that are secretly running on an Excel spreadsheet somewhere:
payroll
the supply chain
a bank
the thing you just called "the system"
your own job, probably |
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[04] Standup is the only meeting where "no blockers" means I have four blockers and none of them have a name yet. |
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[05] A problem shared is a problem halved. A problem shared in the incident channel is a problem forty people can now watch you not solve. |
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[06] Every commit message I write is honest for the first three words.
"fix: resolved issue" is doing an enormous amount of unpaid work. |
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Same week, earlier years. No feed is going to show you these again.
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4 OCTOBER 2012 Firefox: for when lots of free RAM just isn’t for you. |
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7 OCTOBER 2013 11.30pm: "Lemme just fix this one last bug...",
4.30am: "What the hell just happened?"
ಠ_ಠ |
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5 OCTOBER 2013 JavaScript is greatest thing in the world, apart from Breaking Bad...or maybe The Wire. |
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