Engineering Manager who still ships. Sharing what works and what breaks with coding agents in real teams. Gravel, handstands, pleb dad 🧡

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Joined April 2026
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Hi, I'm Nico 👋 Engineering Manager who's back to writing code, mostly together with coding agents. I also just started my own side business building software with AI. Here I share what actually works, what's just hype, and what breaks. What are you building with agents right now?
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A coffee, a paper notebook and my Mac, ready to rock the week. 🚀 What's on your desk this Monday?
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Die beste Belohnung, wenn der Kleine innerhalb von 10 Minuten in der Trage einschläft 😴
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Just get to work 🇩🇪
🎯⬇️ Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO Nvidia, trifft bei seinem aktuellen Besuch in Berlin den Nagel auf den Kopf: "Nichts schmerzt mehr, als eines der technologisch fortschrittlichsten Länder so abgehängt zu sehen."
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It must be incredibly satisfying for the Roadster team to see tens of thousands of people on this app claim that what they achieved is impossible and must be a trick of some sort lol.
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Die Ausbeute kann sich sehen lassen. 300 Liter Saft aus 650 kg Obst 🍏
Endlich wieder Herbstzeit. Die Äpfel vom Stückle müssen weg, also wird wieder Moscht und Apfelsaft gepresst 🍻 Erstaunlich, wie viele Familien zum Pressen kommen
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Replying to @pid1_ @dexhorthy
Random image inspired by your account: engineering manager dad energy with coding agents shipping code, gravel trails, handstands, and autumn orchard vibes.
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Since Opus 5.5 was released I haven't switched models or effort. Dear Anthropic, please don't nerf it with the next update 🙏
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Agents ship at light speed. So today I'm pen testing what they shipped 😅
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Endlich wieder Herbstzeit. Die Äpfel vom Stückle müssen weg, also wird wieder Moscht und Apfelsaft gepresst 🍻 Erstaunlich, wie viele Familien zum Pressen kommen
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30k merges a day is also great marketing. The wild part is they dropped the merge queue and test after merging now. Would you trust that in your team? 😅
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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Code comments or no comments is an old debate and for me it's not black or white. Code should explain itself, but sometimes I still leave the intent as a comment. Otherwise the agent has to dig through tickets and other sources first
ban and delete most if not all code comments! agents love copying what already exists. a seemingly harmless comment explaining some temporary workaround is one of the worst viruses you can have in your codebase. like a weed it'll spread quickly as a tool for agents to quickly get their job done. before you know it, your codebase is overrun with hacks and stale comments. just one more workaround bro you can use pstack's /no-comments skill as a weedkiller. it'll seek out useless comments while keeping the ones that actually should exist (like explaining a browser quirk), and figure out how to solve them on a first principles basis here's a prompt you can try asking @bot: create a project agent that uses /poteto-mode to spawn a /swarm to use /no-comments and identify useless code comments we can prune in my repo. come back with a high level plan of which of these workarounds would be best solved by refactoring and which we can straight up delete x.ai/bot/plugin/9717366
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I reviewed and cancelled a lot of my agent subscriptions. Turns out I can do most of my coding tasks with a $20 Claude Team seat using Opus 5.5 on medium effort. Is knowing what to ask for the real difference between vibe coding and coding with an engineering background?
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It's Sunday. Time to touch grass and do stuff with family and friends ✌️
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Parallel threads coordinated by Claude sounds great. But I already went back to fewer sessions because I lost track of what I shipped. Curious if the overview actually fixes that. Anyone tried it yet?
We just let in every Pro and Max user from the Claude Code Projects waitlist! If you're new to Claude Code Projects, here's a 4 minute walkthrough to get you started:
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Time to review my AI subscriptions and consolidate what I can. Cancelled Cursor ($20) and Codex ($100) and moved 100% to Claude. Feels much better. Which ones are you still paying for?
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The morning started really nice. Went for a walk to stick to my 10k challenge. Opened the laptop and a blocker was already sitting there waiting for me to solve it 🙄
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Mein Tipp für das Wort des Jahres: Mittelherkunftsnachweis
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I’ve seen much better results when I give people context and responsibility instead of controlling how they do the work
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I now do my entire tax return myself with WISO and AI. We talk a lot about agents changing software engineering, but I’d expect tax advisory to start feeling the impact too
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