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.
Recently, I had a "I Know Kung Fu" moment: I know Go. Actually, I don't know Go. Yet, I recently realized that I don't write any code by hand anymore and, with my personal projects, I barely read code anymore, too. So if I don't read and write Node.js code anymore, I might very well not read and write Go code while reaping all its benefits in terms of speed and memory footprint...
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...