The Effects of AI Coding Agents on Developer Infrastructure

Like everyone in the tech industry, I’ve been trying different Generative AI tools for coding in the last few months, from Cursor to Warp and more. We have seen a lot of discussions about the security, performance, and correctness of AI-generated code. Ultimately, the consensus around these problems is that as models improve in quality, their correctness will too, but for the time being, humans are still responsible for checking all the generated code before putting it up for review in a pull request and deploying it.

As someone who has been working primarily on improving developer productivity for the last couple of years, I spend most of my time trying to reduce build times, speed up CI builds, and make builds more deterministic and efficient for engineers. For this reason, a particular area I’m interested in is how AI coding agents and tools affect developer infrastructure.

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Building a Custom Minimal HomeKit Lamp

Building your own dream custom light may seem daunting and time-consuming at first, but it’s actually pretty easy. In this post I’ll walk you through building your own floor lamp controllable via HomeKit and Alexa using off-the-shelf products.

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Xcode's Find Navigator & Search Scopes

Xcode’s built-in search and replace function, present in the find navigator is severely underrated and unknown to many developers. It is very powerful and comes with various options that may look complex at first, but the nice and simple UI should help in getting started with it. Let’s take a quick look at what the Xcode’s find navigator has to offer.

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