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New comment by amichayg in "Software is made between commits"

amichayg — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:34:45 +0000

This seems like such a weird article. Software is made at build time, which is usually due to a cicd process in place, which is dependent on committing code. It works. There’s no magical way of avoiding the idea that code usually exists in a commit someplace without proper justification.

New comment by amichayg in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

amichayg — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:03:26 +0000

taking breaks is really something to try and solve in 2026 - to just write regular code, to read, to exercise even. The mind can eventually get overloaded, and there’s no way around proper hygiene.

New comment by amichayg in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

amichayg — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:54:04 +0000

The core value of LLMs is simple: sometimes you need to write code, but what you really want is to design, experiment, or just get something usable.

Even when you do write code, you often only care about specific aspects—you just want to automate the rest.

This is hard to reconcile with modern business models. If you tell someone that a software engineer can also design, they’ll just fire the designer and pile more work on the engineer. But it doesn’t change the underlying truth: a single engineer who can touch many parts of the software with low cognitive friction is simply a better kind of engineer.