Wrapping up 2025, completing Advent of SQL 2025 in sqlite, learning about CTEs, JOINs, JSON and FTS in SQLite, among the other things read, watched and learnt in the week of 21st to 27th December 2025
This article comes at the perfect time, I was just thinking about how bonkers 2025 felt with all the AI stuff, so glad I'm not the only one feeling a bit out of depth. I found your point about using AI for 'throw away' code but not for bugs and features super interesting and relatable – what made it so draining specificaly when you tried to use it for the realy core problem-solving parts?
Thanks for reading. Glad you can relate to the speed of AI stuff, its truly overwhelming, thank you for validating that its not just me screaming into void.
I feel letting LLMs write the core problem solving draining or rather taking away the joy of "Yes! I did it". Its that as well as part of it not being perfect, I have to understand it thoroughly, read it several times to make sense of its logic and fix it. I found it, it takes more time to review code than to write it myself, because I have confidence of how it works.
Still figuring things with AI assisted coding. Not sure how will we as developers learn if everything is being written by LLMs
This article comes at the perfect time, I was just thinking about how bonkers 2025 felt with all the AI stuff, so glad I'm not the only one feeling a bit out of depth. I found your point about using AI for 'throw away' code but not for bugs and features super interesting and relatable – what made it so draining specificaly when you tried to use it for the realy core problem-solving parts?
Thanks for reading. Glad you can relate to the speed of AI stuff, its truly overwhelming, thank you for validating that its not just me screaming into void.
I feel letting LLMs write the core problem solving draining or rather taking away the joy of "Yes! I did it". Its that as well as part of it not being perfect, I have to understand it thoroughly, read it several times to make sense of its logic and fix it. I found it, it takes more time to review code than to write it myself, because I have confidence of how it works.
Still figuring things with AI assisted coding. Not sure how will we as developers learn if everything is being written by LLMs