AI And The Ship of Theseus
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a differe
Creator of Flask, Jinja2, and Click. Director of Engineering at Sentry. Python and Rust developer.
https://lucumr.pocoo.orgBecause code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a differe
Historically, writing code was slower than reviewing code. It might not have felt that way, because code reviews sat in queues until someone got around to picking it up. But if you compare the actual
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing. Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-exis
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a project of my friend Peter went viral on the internet. It went by many names. The most recent one is OpenClaw but in th
Regular readers of this blog will know that I started a new company. We have put out just a tiny bit of information today, and some keen folks have discovered and reached out by email with many thoug
AI coding agents are causing quality degradation in code contributions, with users seemingly unaware of the problem they're creating.
AI agent ported MiniJinja (Rust template engine) to Go in ~10 hours with minimal human guidance, requiring only 45 min of active work.
Claude AI autonomously solved Advent of Code 2025 puzzles using a web browser skill, working independently to read prompts and submit solutions.
The author reflects on 2025 as a transformative year, leaving Sentry to start a company and shifting from hands-on coding to AI-assisted programming.
Claude Code's "plan mode" conflicted with "YOLO mode" permissions, so the author developed an alternative iterative workflow using markdown files instead.