I'm Markus Oberlehner, a software engineer working on improving developer experience @ Storyblok. I write articles about Vue.js / Nuxt, React / Next.js, Test-driven Development, and CSS.
Reviewing code has become dramatically more expensive relative to the cost of writing code. In the past, code reviews were relatively cheap, or maybe even paid for themselves in the long run. But things have changed: agents now build features in minutes, not days, while human reviewing time stays the same and its benefits diminish...
Is it worth automating things? I'm a software developer. My job is to automate things. Automation, over the last couple of hundred years, has made many of us rich (compared to our ancestors). So the answer should be simple, and yet it isn't...
There are plenty of good reasons to turn your back on the major US technology companies: from shady monopolistic business practices (e.g., app stores); to crafting ever more addictive algorithms that tie us to our screens; to enabling state mass surveillance. Yet all of this is not new. Companies like Apple have been trying to force us into their golden cage of services...