Techstructive Weekly #98
Reading and having conversations about life and me, challenging week with rejections, navigating AI fatigue in day job among the other things watched, learnt in the week from 7th to 13th May 2026
Week #98
It was a high-low week. The Monday gave a tearful morning, somehow scampered on the evening with a good fresh mood. The next day was chaos, I was totally burnt out and the week continued to take the toll. Agent clanking in the background, understanding the problems, addressing them on the calls. It was a week where I didn’t get time to read. I read all 5-6 articles on a friday evening to be honest, which has almost never happened, I usually read something during a week, a afternoon break, or a morning chill 5 minute break.
That might be work, or you can say I was busy reading “Kafka on the shore” it was a riveting book, I am 90% of way through, its almost converging, I am barely able to contain myself in completing the last 60 pages, yet I want to write this first.
I felt accomplished this week, give or take how bad i started with. I had a conversation that made me think deeper on my trajectory and how far I have come. I have built so many things and have taken things that I did for granted. I need to keep doing them and not let AI take over me I suppose. Software has been valuable and interesting to me, I cannot let a token prediction thing take that away from me.
Quote of the week
“The journey I’m making is inside me. Just as blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is inner self, and what seems threatening is just the echo if the fear in my heart”
I marked this line instantly I read it. It was a quote I can keep me with. It feels so good to just read it. We are not competing with others, we are on a mission to do the things we want ourselves to be doing, its about self discovery and self fulfillment. Yes, there are things we do for others, but behind that there is a selfish motive to fulfill our desires and feel good. It is all about discovering and experiencing those desires and values that we truly want to be living in.
Created
APIs: apis.meetgor.com
My own set of apis, my blog, newsletter, reading and writing list, link blog and more to come
I will also be adding standalone apis like games and llamaline, quiz, etc.
Its built on cloudflare workers. It was really nice and quick. Would be developing a full set of features and apps on top of it. It will be like a collection of personal software and interests all in one place, queryable and free.
Read
belderbos.dev: “Rust Is for People Who Want to Be Punished.” Now Jochen Trusts It More Than Python
This intrigues me, like the world is so apart right now. People are on two ends of spectrum, one who have 30+ years of experience and saying, fundamentals and love for learning to code will never be replaced, on the other hand, there are AI-optimists, who says, ‘code is not the point, good software is’. I don’t where I want to be.
I definitely started because of the curiosity and probably will continue because of it, but its too big of a divide to be choosing and I don’t feel like I am in a correct position, or I should say, I have positioned myself in a wired spot. Where code is not the point, the product, or the thing that I produce that will value the customer is. Code has 0 value. Hand coded or vibe coded, it doesn’t matter. I am feeling a bit existential because I haven’t been able to prove that wrong.
“The error messages were my friends right out of the gate”
Yes, error messages are valuable, I want to collect as many as I can. But AI is eating them up before me. OR I am letting him eat up?
“Rust is a beautiful language. It's an aesthetic language. It looks good, and working toward more beautiful code was really something I liked”
Really its good to view structured and understandable code, I am not gonna lie, it feels great to write some sophisticated code by hand (not to confuse someone but to make it usable). Though with AI reading and writing most of the code, who even bothers?
I like the author’s honesty and raw expression but I am not in a right mindset to agree to this I think, we are past the point where programming languages matter in making code look readable.
Sean Goedecke’s blog: Doing nothing at work
This is a good post, there are stressful times in a year mostly two or three, but month after month is not sustainable right?
I thought working at a startup might be good for learning, but its turning out to be a double edged sword of stress and no time to breathe. Its too much of cognition overload, with AI its becoming a nightmare to get up daily and grind 12 hours.
But the points here are laid out really well. You need to be unoccupied in order to do a high impact task, and also doing the right thing at the right time, that only happens if your mind is clear.
API Evangelist: Replacing the Petstore OpenAPI with the Train Travel OpenAPI Specs: https://bump.sh/blog/modern-openapi-petstore-replacement
This is a fresh take on use dummy api examples vs serious examples correctly.
I like good examples, it helps go beyond the basics and enforce certain good practices is a bonus.Going beyond CRUD is what makes this likable and relatable.
It is common enough and specific enough to make the reader and the learner distinguish his / her perspective and take away all the good lessons.
Zed Blog: Software is made between commits
Really interesting. I agree that the meat of the decisions happen before even a commit is made, the commit might be a lossy compression of the decisions and features scopes.
With delta db it looks something different, I am not sure what the flow would be, but having all the context and history of what happened to the code as it got transformed from one stage to other is really correct analogy. Especially after agentic engineering is taking off.
I haven’t tried Zed, maybe this month might be a good one to do so, who knows there’s a world beyond vim?
AI as Normal Tech: Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers and won’t
The sandwich of decide-execution-deliver is really a good analogy. I also agree to the two opposite ends are not replacable by AI at all, that is a human part, that is something humans have to do.
Execution is largely solved is like saying “Coding is mostly solved” that might not be entirely true but yes, generating a code is solved, what and why that question is not.
A really good hopeful post in a age of slop and fear.
Watched
What’s new in OpenAPI 3.2 by Lorna Mitchel Jane
This was a nice overview on what was released in the 3.2 version of the OpenAPI specification. The addition of tag kinds and parent hierarchy is really nice to have, enhancing the documentation readability and navigation. The query string schema is also cool, it makes it like a lego block to play with. Fits in really nicely with the existing spec. The discriminator default mapping fits perfectly for many usecases.
It again makes me feel that life is lived by finding happiness in the smallest of joys in just self interest and caring about things.
It finally happened, DHH’s take is wrong maybe
Well, open source is kind of in a place of bother due to AI. People are AI washing the repositories like spam PR bots. Its rough years to be a open source maintainer.
I like prime’s take here, he is rightfully comparing the Zig’s vision. The learning aspect is what makes opensource the existing reason. People are attracted to it, just because of curiosity and the willingness to explore something on their own accord, and AI doesn’t help here, yes it can help you get unblock but crawling with it is not helping you to learn to walk or run.
The Primeagen takes on “Coding is solved”: I think they are lying to you
This is a solid dig at Boris. Coding largely solved in 2025, 2026, the flickering is 85% fixed. Wow! I am joyed to be alive and reading this. Claude is good, it can write code more than me and 100% better than me, but …. I don’t want 100% more code right? i am happy in just 10% but the one that makes me happy and live better.
What makes Code Cozy, TJ and Vegan on the Cozy code hour podcast
Cozy code is a really subjective one, and to be honest in the age of AI this is the least bothering thing, because nobody is reviewing it anymore is it? ; |
A good chilly video if you want to listen to it.
Learnt
Understanding requirements and what to build is still a bottleneck, though the execution might have become a cake walk
Thanks to AI Agents, navigating a complex task is easier, not cake walk all way through, only a part of it is automated, the decisioning and taking the right judgement is still a human taste.
I was working with the clankers and throughout the week, it had asked me only 10 or so questions, but those questions were like really draining my mental bandwidth, like stretching my thinking to a bit, those would have taken days or not weeks to come up with if I would have evaluated and written the code. But thanks to these AI Agents I can make them in a few hours of work and jotting it down in a english paragraph.
I moved the dns server from hostinger to cloudflare
It was a brave move, but I made it, I thought I might bring some web pages down, but nothing bad happened.
It is like moving your nameservers delegates the authoritative control of the domain’s DNS zone file from Hostinger’s local servers to Cloudflare’s global Anycast network, allowing Cloudflare to route, secure, and proxy all incoming web traffic before it reaches your hosting origin. That was a good thing to learn.
Tech News
Anthropic releases Fable 5 (Nerfed Mythos)
This looks big, as people have reported. I am not sure if it will be a willing model to do more things willingly. The will thing as well is becoming blur.
Feels good that the core libraries are still being pushed and getting released, powering the next generation of software must be solid and robust for software to make leaps.
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That’s it from this one, a bit short, a bit dense, but consistency is the key if you notice the 98 in the edition, almost 2 years in the completion. No pauses, no breaks, just week in and week out.
See you next week for the 99 special edition.
Take care, Thanks for reading..
Happy Coding :)