Articles related to software development, that I did and keep doing a lot. A broader list of topics, that may include things about software development management, planning and obviously - building.
My brother called on Friday morning. I’ve been busy and rescheduled the conversation. And since my plans went exceptionally well, I reached him back a couple of hours later.
What I heard
Sending API requests is simple and available out of the box. Until data must not be sent outside.
We either not use LLMs or accept the costs of running LLMs on premise. Sometimes it might be just a few hundreds away.
AI agents can execute faster than we ever could. But speed doesn’t replace judgment. My OpenClaw upgrade turned into an experiment in preparation, supervision, and knowing when to let agents work, and when to step in.
Compressing time for coding drastically increase decision density. It's always been hard for our brains to make conscious decisions. The new density elevates the challenge.
MCP itself wasn’t the problem. Treating MCP integrations as nearly free infrastructure was. Two integrations, two unexpected resource costs, and one old EliteDesk made the operational cost of another abstraction very audible.
