Pair-Programming

A phone call with a mate turned into a wager: could AI actually build a real application from scratch? Five months, 898 commits and 40,000 lines of Rust later, here’s the verdict — and the app. It started with a phone call Like most of my questionable decisions, this one started on the phone with a mate, talking about technology the way we always do. The conversation drifted, as every technical conversation eventually does now, into AI. And we ended up circling the same question everyone circles: is this stuff actually capable of building real software, or is it just very confident autocomplete? ...

What Extreme Programming taught us about collaboration — and why it maps perfectly onto working with LLMs The current conversation is missing something If you spend any time in developer circles right now, the conversation about AI coding tools tends to collapse into one of two camps. The first camp believes we are months away from AI replacing software developers entirely — that the role of the human is already vestigial, a temporary inconvenience on the road to full automation. The second camp pushes back hard, arguing that AI is little more than a sophisticated autocomplete — useful for boilerplate, dangerous if trusted, and nowhere near capable of producing anything a senior engineer couldn’t do faster with a clear head and a good keyboard shortcut. ...