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Advice to a Senior Engineer looking for work in an AI world

rotbart — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@rotbart/advice-to-a-senior-engineer-looking-for-work-in-an-ai-world-153aa9cd3d81

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146049

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rotbart in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

rotbart — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:07:18 +0000

This is a similar workflow to speckit, kiro, gsd, etc.

New comment by rotbart in "Giving Claude Code Eyes: Round-Trip Screenshot Testing"

rotbart — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:35:26 +0000

I levelled up my Claude Code workflow by giving it the ability to see its own front-end output — automatic screenshots captured during system/e2e tests, wired into a custom Code command that visually inspects every captured frame.

Two files, a few lines of config, and a meaningfully better feedback loop.

Giving Claude Code Eyes: Round-Trip Screenshot Testing

rotbart — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:35:26 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@rotbart/giving-claude-code-eyes-round-trip-screenshot-testing-ce52f7dcc563

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108506

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rotbart in "Acme Weather"

rotbart — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:11:27 +0000

I can't download it, as it appears to be US only. Based on the screenshots, without 'feels like' support throughout the forecast (not just for current conditions) it wouldn't be useful where I live.

New comment by rotbart in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

rotbart — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:24:27 +0000

Hurrah, its dumb answer to the now classic "the car wash is 100m away, should I drive or walk?" appeared very quickly.

New comment by rotbart in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

rotbart — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:27:18 +0000

This is not exclusive to the East, but any culture with a high cost of expression. Recent interview with a Russian CEO, talking about how they have "growth across the board, only in the negative direction"

New comment by rotbart in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

rotbart — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:58:05 +0000

Nothing wrong with the attributes the author groups under 'transparent leadership', but the article shows a certain misunderstanding of servant leadership.

At the core of servant leadership is the idea that leaders shouldn't hoard power, but instead share it and empower their reports. That they are accountable to their reports, rather than the other way.

Nothing to do with acting like a parents and becoming a single point of failure.

New comment by rotbart in "Delete tests"

rotbart — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 06:43:18 +0000

So... clickbait title for an article that could have been called "Delete flakey tests"...but then and most of us would have just gone "yep" and not clicked.

New comment by rotbart in "Tilt: dev environment as code"

rotbart — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:19:19 +0000

Great talk about this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2AQ9eTZ3-0

New comment by rotbart in "Hyrum's Law in Golang"

rotbart — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:05:45 +0000

Hyrum's Law especially applies when you have consumers of your APIs that violate Postel's Law. To minimise those in the past, we've introduced intentional jitter in our API responses that while didn't violate the schema prevented unintentional reliance on behaviour that wasn't intentional[1].

[1]: <https://medium.com/pageup-tech/update-on-driving-client-resi...>

New comment by rotbart in "Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web [pdf]"

rotbart — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:55:37 +0000

Add: '-site:pinterest.com' to your Google image search to avoid pinterest results.

New comment by rotbart in "Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life"

rotbart — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 23:01:10 +0000

As a former 13year old, that would be the end of 13 year olds using iMessages... I smell an opportunity.

New comment by rotbart in "How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me"

rotbart — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 05:46:27 +0000

That's where red-green TDD and pairing comes in. Unit tests != class level tests.

New comment by rotbart in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

rotbart — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:36:29 +0000

Overall would recommend leveraging the schema from JSONResume (https://jsonresume.org/schema/) that supports all of the above

New comment by rotbart in "Tiny antibody component highly effective against SARS-CoV-2 in animal studies"

rotbart — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:49:17 +0000

More information: Wei Li et al, High potency of a bivalent human VH domain in SARS-CoV-2 animal models, Cell (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.007

Tiny antibody component highly effective against SARS-CoV-2 in animal studies

rotbart — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:48:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-tiny-antibody-component-highly-effective.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476774

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by rotbart in "Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems"

rotbart — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 04:26:20 +0000

It's a very simplistic tool, but it is great to help visualise and illustrate some systems. It helped me demonstrate the dynamic between technical complexity, delivery pressure and velocity (then add refactoring) https://medium.com/pageup-tech/the-system-of-technical-compl...

New comment by rotbart in "Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event"

rotbart — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:47:39 +0000

This just prompted me to cancel my Zoom subscription... I could live with all the security flaws (which were patched quite rapidly) but not with this kind of unethical behaviour.

New comment by rotbart in "Postel's Law in Development"

rotbart — Thu, 21 May 2020 05:32:24 +0000

Reminds me of how we subverted Postel's Law to uphold Postel's Law https://medium.com/pageup-tech/update-on-driving-client-resi...