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Getting to know the possibilities (Day 1)

Today I finally took some time to try to understand what coding agents are really capable of doing. I've been skeptical for so long... but, a few days before starting on a new job, I believe it's time to give it another try.

Turns out that things have evolved a loooot since my last attempt (mid 2025). After signing up to an Anthropic Claude account, I followed a friend's suggestion and took a look at Nick Tune's blog posts.

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We are getting into serious business.

One of my biggest problems with this AI hype can be summarized on this Stackoverflow podcast episode's title: AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt.

AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt - Stack Overflow
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I feel that we (as an industry) are automating a broken process (software development), which will multiply the effects of it. We are still discussing the importance of topics such as continuous delivery and TDD... in 2026!

But, back to Nick Tune. These sequence of blog posts simply blew my mind:

Nick also brings two open source masterpieces (at least for a beginner's eyes):

But, before getting my hands dirty, it's important to highlight this quote:

I built this myself because I wanted to learn from the ground up, but there are spec-driven frameworks out there that handle this phase. If you’re just getting started, it might be worth looking at what already exists rather than rolling your own.

I need to remind myself: take it easy and have fun.

Let's see what I can make out of all of this.

Interesting contents I read and watched along the way

Here are few other things I found interesting today:

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