It is not often I feel small

Tokyo smiled at us!

Well, Tokyo be Tokio... You can get a great martini for $20k USD.

Early dinner and a chill night. Hopefully get over the jet lag quick.

This view does not suck. Good to see you again, Tokyo. It's been a minute.

Next stop: Tokyo! – at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

I have been supplanted. ...the keyboard was my last line of defence, but he brought his own...

So I’m working through a gnarly issue in a codebase Claude built. And I caught myself getting annoyed that it was slow. Which made me stop. Slow compared to what? I certainly can’t write this code as fast as the agent. So why does it feel like I’m not making good progress? I realized it’s because I’ve lost access to my intuition. I’ve been writing software for a lot of years. When something broke in my own code, I couldn’t type the fix faster than an agent - but I usually had a hunch. I knew the 2-3 functions where the problem most likely lived. Now I still understand the architecture (I think). But when I dig into a tough issue, I have to start by validating basic assumptions and work my way down to the deeper questions. To be fair - my world used to be a lot smaller, so it was easier to keep in my head. Knowing every street in a small town is one thing. Knowing every street in a metropolis is another. And yes, I’ve worked in big codebases before. I’ve built products (started them, then led the engineering teams) that ran to millions of LOC. But the pace of change was so much slower. You had time to learn the streets. Long story short - we’ve gained a huge speed advantage in building, and lost the intuition that let us diagnose complex issues fast. Anyone else feeling this? How are you getting your gut back?

.... And this explains why I have been feeling like a beaten dog.

13 parallel workflows. The factory says there should be no conflicts. Let's see...

Is there like a 'agent meta' website? Where people list what agents are good at? I have found Astra to be a terrible supervisor for example. It keeps stopping all the time, can't set a wake-up timer. You prod it and it will return status and still not move tasks forward...

Saturday is almost over here... A bit of life-work-ballance. Started in the rowing club. Ending with a date night with my wife in Dubai at a Lost Frequencies concert.

Office on the go Que up the work for the night...

Early on the water...

Astra Autism is back in spades, amirite?

Sujuk breakfast, Habibi! – at Dubai, United Arab Emirates

A day away from the keyboard. Time for some biz dev.

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