AI coding agents aren't about working less or faster
AI coding agents aren’t about working less or faster, they’re about finally tackling those complex projects sitting in your backlog. You know, the ones that seemed too daunting or tedious to start. Now you can actually pursue those ambitious ideas that felt out of reach before. You just need to envision, plan, and supervise the AI agent’s work, and the cost is minimal. This is an opportunity we can’t ignore.
Read moreLexicographically Sortable Unique IDs and Cryptographic Random in Clarion
Using randomly generated unique IDs has many advantages over table-based auto-numbered fields. The most common option is to use UUIDs/GUIDs, which are 128 bits long but commonly stored as a 36-byte string. Another option available for Clarion programmers is to use StringTheory guids, which are 16-byte strings containing uppercase letters and numbers. I see two disadvantages with random IDs: There is no way to know in what order the records were added, which may be useful in many situations They cause index fragmentation in SQL databases A solution exists for UUIDs/GUIDs with UUIDv7, and there’s a Clarion implementation available in ClarionHub. However, I prefer StringTheory GUIDs since they’re more compact and easier to use in manual SQL queries.
Read moreTo replace programmers with AI
To replace programmers with AI, clients will need to accurately describe what they want. We’re safe. — Dr Milan Milanović
Software spending paradox
Software is this weird space where you can spend basically nothing and create a billion dollars of value, or spend a billion dollars and create basically no value. — François Chollet
What developer tool do you use the most?
“What developer tool do you use the most?” A search engine. Then chat software. Then some form of notepad. An IDE may be in my top 10 most commonly used tools, but it’s absolutely not number 1 or even close. — Nick Craver
Writing good code
Writing code is about making your computer do what you need. Writing good code is about enabling teams of strangers 5 years from now to make their computers do what they need. — François Chollet
International convention of debugging stages
For anyone unfamiliar with the well-established international convention of debugging stages:
Read moreCloud embrace failure
Cloud == Embrace Failure Code for it. — Shayne Boyer
The mythical man-month
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” — Fred Brooks — Programming Wisdom
Computers do what you tell them
“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.” — Ted Nelson — Programming Wisdom
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