The first question at the meetup: has AI ended software development?
AI ended writing code by hand at the keyboard, not the developer. What's over, what remains, and how a new graduate gets through a narrowing door.
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AI-powered systems: RAG, agents, MCP, LLM integration and the AI-assisted development loop, covered in posts with practical examples.
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AI ended writing code by hand at the keyboard, not the developer. What's over, what remains, and how a new graduate gets through a narrowing door.
MCP was the right answer for giving an agent a project's documentation. As the count grew, the servers themselves became the thing needing maintenance.
RAG or fine-tuning gets answered everywhere. The three questions left after it — the key, the model choice, the budget — get answered nowhere.
I added a deterministic flaky-test filter to CommitBrief: it catches hard-coded sleeps and unseeded randomness at commit time, with no model.
Vibe coding made shipping easier, but what someone without systems knowledge ships isn't what a senior steering the AI ships. Three levels.
One afternoon I hit the limits of self-review, so I wrote a tool that audits my own diff without leaving the terminal: CommitBrief.