Bryan Liles

Thank you. I really appreciate that!

I have other ideas: it’s hard to get out of east or west Baltimore even on public transportation. The food deserts are real. And it’s much easier to do elicit stuff than get a job that gives you dignity and pays the bills. This is my opinion as someone from Baltimore.

My guess is that is results of lead reduction. Not policy or anything else. We removed a poison that messed people’s brains up.

AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed. Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

One person’s villain is another person’s freedom fryter. Or maybe I missed the pun.

It said it liked my idea. Consciousnesses confirmed.

I’m using agents in Claude cli and Kiro cli to answer what if. Previously, we could never go chase down all the questions in our heads due to lack of time and energy. Today, I’m building things only to see what happens. If I don’t like the outcome, I build another thing. Feels like a super power.

If it’s good, why care where it came from? I get this is about passing of off as our own, but in the end, does that really matter?

Me too!

This is my #1 use of Claude desktop. I have it build visual explainers for all types of topics.

It’s a similar problem at a different level of abstraction. Tossing words at a model and hoping to see something good is a fool’s errand. Giving it some detail and having it build something that would have taken you weeks in a couple of afternoons is where it feels amazing to me.

That’s false. Look at how many cities and towns police their Black citizens. There are still multiple law and amendment violations happening today. But, I will give you credit for seeing those other things as bad.

That’s a whole different conversation!

I’m having lots of success using tools like Claude code to think, iterate on ideas, and write useful code. As someone who has been coding a very long time, this is a real improvement. The best part is that if I want to write something myself, I still can. But why? So many problems, so little time.

This is true. There is an art to it.

Traffic in that part of Maryland is already highly congested, so at the very least, people will have something to look at as they creep along at 10 mph.

Change Intent Records: The Missing Artifact in AI-Assisted Development Git tells us what changed. ADRs tell us why we chose an architecture. But when AI writes the code, we need something new: a record of intent.

I’ve been experimenting with what I called CIRs to help with this. blog.bryanl.dev/posts/change...

This is one reason for doc reads instead of presentations.

Let’s create a fund. I’ll match your initial contribution.

How is your running going? Are you still studying Chinese?

This is neat. Now I’m over here trying to figure out how to make myself more productive. I saw a bug. If you run analytics in the tui before sync, you will get an error.

LinkedIn rewards you for posting consistently. I get better engagement than before, but it’s work. Also, these days, I wonder if I really want engagement these days.

In the United States, you have to take your race, ethnicity, and gender into the equation. It’s not fair, but that’s what it is. I’d do the same if starting out today.

I’m not calling you Blackstradamus.

My Spanish is good enough to not starve and find directions, but I was able to get the premise of the part about Hawaii. I enjoyed the show.

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That’s not fair or true. Dookie had a couple. Time of your life. American Idiot. 4 easy ones.

Which of these items are free? The executors of the laws are skating a fine line to not violate poll tax laws. This hasn’t been fully tested. Your experience and mine will differ from folks in vulnerable situations.

Dope concept. If I were doing this series, I’d screen cap instead of using the camera.

That sounds sustainable.