6 posts tagged “gergely-orosz”
2025
Despite being rusty with coding (I don't code every day these days): since starting to use Windsurf / Cursor with the recent increasingly capable models: I am SO back to being as fast in coding as when I was coding every day "in the zone" [...]
When you are driving with a firm grip on the steering wheel - because you know exactly where you are going, and when to steer hard or gently - it is just SUCH a big boost.
I have a bunch of side projects and APIs that I operate - but usually don't like to touch it because it's (my) legacy code.
Not any more.
I'm making large changes, quickly. These tools really feel like a massive multiplier for experienced devs - those of us who have it in our head exactly what we want to do and now the LLM tooling can move nearly as fast as my thoughts!
2024
Gergely Orosz’s edited clip of me talking about Open Source. Gergely Orosz released this clip to help promote our podcast conversation AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype - it's a neat bite-sized version of my argument for why Open Source has provided the single biggest enhancement to developer productivity I've seen in my entire career.
One of the big challenges everyone talked about was software reusability. Like, why are we writing the same software over and over again?
And at the time, people thought OOP was the answer. They were like, oh, if we do everything as classes in Java, then we can subclass those classes, and that's how we'll solve reusable software.
That wasn't the fix. The fix was open source. The fix was having a diverse and vibrant open source community releasing software that's documented and you can package and install and all of those kinds of things.
That's been incredible. The cost of building software today is a fraction of what it was 20 years ago, purely thanks to open source.
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison. Gergely Orosz has a brand new podcast, and I was the guest for the first episode. We covered a bunch of ground, but my favorite topic was an exploration of the (very legitimate) reasons that many engineers are resistant to taking advantage of AI-assisted programming tools.
How Anthropic built Artifacts. Gergely Orosz interviews five members of Anthropic about how they built Artifacts on top of Claude with a small team in just three months.
The initial prototype used Streamlit, and the biggest challenge was building a robust sandbox to run the LLM-generated code in:
We use iFrame sandboxes with full-site process isolation. This approach has gotten robust over the years. This protects users' main Claude.ai browsing session from malicious artifacts. We also use strict Content Security Policies (CSPs) to enforce limited and controlled network access.
Artifacts were launched in general availability yesterday - previously you had to turn them on as a preview feature. Alex Albert has a 14 minute demo video up on Twitter showing the different forms of content they can create, including interactive HTML apps, Markdown, HTML, SVG, Mermaid diagrams and React Components.
AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2024. Gergely Orosz reports back on the survey he ran of 211 tech professionals concerning their use of generative AI. One interesting result:
The responses reveal that as many professionals are using both ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot as all other tools combined!
I agree with Gergely's conclusion:
We’re in the midst of a significant tooling change, with AI-augmented software engineering becoming widespread across tech. Basically, these tools have too many upsides for developers to ignore them: it’s easier and faster to switch between stacks, easier to get started on projects, and simpler to become productive in unfamiliar codebases. Of course there are also downsides, but being aware of them means they can be mitigated.
2022
Software engineering practices
Gergely Orosz started a Twitter conversation asking about recommended “software engineering practices” for development teams.
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