@alexboly

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Romania is never boring.

These days, I'm assisting astonished to the president launching an assault to take over the liberal party, probably in coordination with the justice system, and which likely got out of hand, and whose outcome becomes more unpredictable by every passing hour.

It's like an episode of a political drama, only with worse acting and dumber, except being real makes it less entertaining and more frightening.

AI tools are generating 110% more code. Lead times are up 480%. The Faros 2026 Engineering Report calls it the "Acceleration Whiplash."
This is not a surprise for people knowing the theory of constraints, queuing theory, and complex adaptive systems: speed up a stage in a pipeline, and you create bottlenecks or bugs, then the system adapts around the new reality.
The number that stands up: 861% increase in code churn.

More in the video.
https://mozaicworks.com/blog/more-ai-code-less-producti...

@sleepyfox everything you say is correct. At the same time there was something called "Spotify model" that resonated with organizations leaders enough to start agile transformation programs. This is what I'm referring to.

And I'm aware that the whole thing was illogical, based on semantically wrong notions, and that results were mixed. But I've learned to accept that's how culture works, because no matter how much we want to think otherwise, people aren't logical beings.

@sleepyfox some, yes. I've worked with organizations who seem more thoughtful, at least for now, and haven't bought into token maxxxing. They aren't the visible ones.

To me, the conversation feels a lot like the ones around agile or TDD: it's very easy to find the counter examples because they're all around us; but pockets of the industry are working differently. If I were a betting man, I would bet that one of them will become the future "Spotify model" of AI usage.

The goal of AI in software development isn't to write more code faster. It's to write better code — and that often means slowing down.
Nolan Lawson wrote a piece called "Using AI to write better code more slowly", and the sentiment is right. The techniques are a different conversation.
What actually works? The same things that worked before AI: small pieces, clear goals, incremental iteration. AI gives you a faster feedback loop on those fundamentals — not a shortcut around them. https://moza...
Alex learns htmx

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@samir htmx is one of my favourite technologies. It's simple, natural, does what it's supposed to do. Works well with WebComponents.

I have a youtube series in which I used it to create a todo list, and at some point decided to use the state monad instead of storing data on server.

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This quote from Picasso describes how most developers start with using AI.
But the most productive thing you can do with an AI assistant isn't to generate faster. It's to think better through conversations. Learn how in our latest video: https://mozaicworks.com/blog/5-ai-conversation-patterns-every-developer-should-know?fsp_sid=1661 #AI #De...
https://mozaicworks.com/blog/5-ai-conversation-patterns-every-developer-should-know?fsp_sid=1661
Today's weather in Romania: warm, western winds, and eastern drones