I'm a keyboard nerd.. After nearly 15 years on an Advantage, I went down the rabbit hole all the way down to 34 key boards, and everything in between. But you know? The *best* developers I know, use a cheap keyboard, usually a Dell one, that you can find
closets full of and have never thought about switching. Funny. I've bought of a few of these devs nicer mechanicals as gifts, and they've never been appreciated.
I do like OpenCode, and have been using it in and off since last July. But I feel like they’re trying to stuff too much GUI into a TUI? Due to this I find myself using Codex and Pi more often. But am still glad OpenCode and their Zen product exist.
50s here. I love building and designing software to solve problems. For years now I haven’t liked the actual coding part. AI has given me a super power.
I do this with an extension. I run all bash tools with bwrap and ACLs for the write and edit tools. Serves my purposes. Opens up access to other required directories, at least for git and rust.
I think I published it. Check the pi package page.
I recently tried Vibe (https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe) from a recording of a meeting taken on one side. It was able to identify the speakers. As Speaker 1, 2, etc. But still useful to see.
I fall into the 25 year of experience category. Probably a few more. For me, this agentic coding couldn’t have come at a better time. I still love thinking about solutions to problems and creating those solutions. I’m becoming less and less interested in the implementation details of those solutions.
I tend to use Claude Code in 2 scenarios. YOLO where I don’t care what it looks like. One shot stuff I’ll never maintain.
Or a replacement for my real hands on coding. And in many cases I can’t tell the difference after a few days if I wrote it or AI did. Of course I have well established patterns and years of creating requirements for junior devs.
Both of my wife's parents died with cancer in their 60s before MAID. These days we're seeing the parents of others, and even our peers choosing MAID. It breaks my wife's heart every time that MAID wasn't available to her parents.
I work on a fully open project that sustains itself… And we really push for a ticket before any major work is done just to make sure it fits our scope.
At the end of the day most contributions come from people as part of their job, and they move on. We’re left to maintain it.
I don't want to hijack this thread, but what does Django do?
I ask, cause I have a service that is a Rust backend (kind of specialized in what it does) + a SolidJS frontend... But I've seen a potential area for growth, I didn't imagine at first, and that would be stuff like user profiles, authentication, and managing stuff. And I really don't want to cut all this more "CRUD" like stuff in Rust and an SPA. I don't know Ruby, but have done some rather large Python projects in the past, just never ventured into Django land.