Ode to @GrugBrainedDev grug sit by fire, code in hand, wonder why things not go as planned. complexity demon lurk in code, make grug heavy, big brain load. test shaman chant, "test all night!" grug just want code work right. shiny rocks spend on agile talk, grug prefer just take a walk. microservice far too much, grug prefer monolith touch. grug write log, many line, hope debug in less time. grug love tool, debugger dear, help make bug disappear. grug code simple, clear and bright, fight complexity demon with all might. grug say to young grug crew, "keep it simple, this much true. too much thinking, brain will crack, write good code, no looking back."

Excel is a cognitive crutch, I should use a calculator. No, wait, a calculator is a cognitive crutch, I should use an abacus. No, wait, an abacus is a cognitive crutch, I should use pen and paper. No, wait...

This is wild. I created a @trpcio-style router pattern, but for @electronjs IPC calls between the webview and Node.js. It took less than an hour using @claudeai . The type system is fully inferred from the Node.js code, just like in the original TRPC project. WTF.

the 'boredom' experienced while waiting for the LLM to finish is often accompanied by anxiety, caused by not knowing exactly what the LLM-generated code does.

Coding without LLMs just feels primitive now. Exactly the same feeling I got when I started using Intellisense more aggressively. Can't go back now.

I'm blown away. Nano Banana 🍌Pro. I generated the 4-panel script using GPT 5.1, then fed it into Gemini. This was literally the first image generated. One shot, one kill.

Would not be using Rust on a serious project I'm working on, if I didn't have an LLM to help me get over the learning curve.

Gen Z-ers who are "raw-dogging boredom" to fix their attention spans is nothing new.... people have been doing it for millennia. It's called meditation.

To get to flow states while the LLM is working, think about the product design and the architecture. Not the code itself.

LLMs use Markdown for formatting. It's by far the easiest way to write formatted documents using AI. Maybe we'll see the full Markdownification of the corporate world? Maybe even some LaTeXification. The thought fills my heart with joy.

In the morning, I wrote Rust. In the afternoon, I wrote Python. In the evening, I wrote Typescript. At night, I had a prototype.

Immensely enjoying Rust so far.

we thought we'd find little green men. instead, we found a little green fenn.

It's too easy to hope that your LLM will fix your code by itself. It won't. If you start drifting away from deep understanding of what your code does, you're starting to lose power.