I Hate Lazy People. I Hired a Lazy LLM.
Smells of code, facts, numbers, and dreams.
It was a routine dependency update.
You know the kind. Lock file refresh, a few minor versions bumping,
The Upside Down Codebase: Rewrite or Update?
If you haven’t watched Stranger Things, stop reading this and go watch it. I’ll wait.
Back? Good.
For the rest of us: Hawkins,
Distributed Systems Don’t Fail. They Gaslight.
Something broke. A customer can’t update a record. SLA is ticking.
You open Kibana. There are logs. Thousands of them. You know the rough
I Don’t Write Code Anymore. I Ship Code.
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Probabilistic Done
There was a rhythm to it.
A customer needed something. We’d sit down,
I Gave an AI the Keys to My Codebase. Here’s What Survived Production.
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Become a Very Expensive Prompt Engineer
The Hype Arrives at Your Door
I resisted longer than most.