Welcome to the second episode of my “Magic Lamp” series. The whole point of the series is to share my experience with agentic coding - what I’ve learned, what worked for me, and why I think that, in a certain setup, the productivity and efficiency are out of this world....
I recently saw DHH’s keynote at “Railsworld 2026” and it has spurred my plan to share the story of my epiphany (related to agentic coding, ofc). No, don’t worry, I’m not going to describe my full journey with LLMs (that would be a long one …), nor am...
What’s the “reverse centaur”? I read about this concept in Cory Doctorow's last book. Paraphrasing him (clumsily): * A centaur is a setup where the human is in control, and an external factor (e.g., artificial intelligence, an exoskeleton, a cognitive boost) augments him to boost his capabilities....
Do you recall Eliyahu Goldratt’s “Theory of Constraints” (ToC)? It’s a relatively simple (& industry-agnostic) management paradigm focused on workflow efficiency. Simple, yet with massive practical implications. The key theses of this paradigm (that is fully compatible with Systems' Theory) go something like this: 1. The...
According to the data shared by GitHub (e.g., here), the programming activity is booming online: not only do we get more developers, but they also create more code. Unsurprisingly, this trend is mostly attributed to the rise of LLMs (in all flavors: from "autocomplete on steroids" to...
That's the second (& final) post in the mini-series. The prior one can be found here. Where are we right now? I've explained why the "depth" of Gen AI usage matters. And I've already covered two of the total three obstacles...
