Weekly Brain Dump #38
At a Glance
- Agentic Development Sadly I must try this now
- Interesting Links Cool things I found this week
- Comments
Agentic Development
Work has had a large LLM push recently and I’ve been encouraged to try out this tooling. Weirdly enough I must have had a gut feeling this was coming because I had started dabbling with using OpenCode withe Gemma 4 24B A4B.
The local LLM and OpenCode setup was pretty nice, I like OpenCode as an interface and after twiddling with my process I was managing to get some decent outputs. I did find I had to stay ahead of it and understand the codebase to help it navigate bugs and prevent churning tokens.
I completely see how addictive this can be and have found myself keeping my laptop in arms reach when I’d normally be relaxing just so I can check its output and kick off the next task. I’m probably going to have to enforce a hard limit on when I use these tools to prevent burn out.
Work is pushing me to use Claude Code and I’ve been dabbling with that this afternoon and it’s bonkers how fast it is. I can absolutely see how you would blow your leg off with a tool like this. Keeping on top of it and making sure it’s doing the right thing and hasn’t veered off a cliff is going to be hard.
I’m absolutely going to keep coding by hand outside of work once I feel confident enough with these tools to do my job as “efficiently” as they want. The hand crafting of beautiful code that’s maintainable is never going to be able to be beaten as a rewarding hobby.
Needless to say I’m very ethically torn on all of this. I don’t like that these tools have been trained on unethically sourced data and funnels money that could have gone to the people who’s work it stole into the pockets of people making a lot of money on completely unsustainable companies.
Interesting Links
How Jekyll Works: I never realised how small Jekyll is!
Creepy crawlies: It's awful how many resources are being spent stopping AI scrapers.
htmx 4.0.0 has been released!: I've used and like HTMX, it's good to see it finally get a major bump.