This year, I played 'Advent of Code Golf': a Code Golf over Advent of Code: calendar of coding puzzles by Eric Wastl. Miraculously, I have managed to fit all my solutions in 2024 symbols (a perfect number for the 2025 calendar!). But as soon as I have written the part 1, I became nagged by my results. 'All solutions' weren't really all solutions. That was worth improving...
Anthropic, the company behind the most powerful (at the moment) AI software development agent Claude Code, recently had to retire the take-home job interview assignment. The reason? They 'were about to release a model where the best strategy on take-home would be delegating to Claude Code'. According to Anthropic benchmarks, their Opus 4.5 model could beat in 2 hours what a human can make in 2 hours; and significantly beat most humans results if given 12 hours to work. Is it an incredible feat, or is it just a hype?
The hardest part of a senior software engineer's job isn't writing code. It is stopping your manager from passing off a Figma mockup as a product that's almost finished. But in the era of overly polite software development AI tools, used directly by the managers, whose job is it now to stop them?
Every year, I play Advent of Code, an advent calendar of coding puzzles by Eric Wastl. This year I wanted an extra challenge. I decided to spend hours writing horrible, unreadable, bodged-together code full of code smells, bad practices, and hacks. I decided to do Code Golf.
I have beefs with many conventional critiques of python. People complain about GIL, people say python is slow. Along these lines lies the 'match-case' pattern matching. I'll be clear: match-case is bad, don't use it.
You are a developer, and your team lead sucks at their job. If only you were a team lead, you would have done way better. Rejoice! For the time has come for you to prove yourself!...
Ever since Sonnet 3.7 came out, I have no doubt that the software engineer job (and thus, the job market) will change. I sincerely believe that in two years...
There are two reasons why python is 'bad'. First, it is not statically typed like C. Second, it is not as fast as C...
Raytracing in python - now with animation!
I read majestic Fabien Sanglard’s article about the “business card raytracer” a few years ago. These 1337 bytes of code would fit on a business card...
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