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Rahoul Baruah

Rahoul Baruah

Rubyist since 1.8.6. I like hair, dogs and Kim/Charli/Poppy. Also CTO at Collabor8Online.

AI Doomer vs AI Booster

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Quoting Nilesh Jasani The speed of this pivot was breathtaking. The skeptics changed their arguments with the terrified fervor of late converts. They did not change their underlying conclusions. The conclusion always came
Easy to read, Easy to write

Easy to read, Easy to write

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I got my first "professional" software development job in 1998. I put professional in quotes because it was a bit of a mess - a tiny place with one guy who knew
Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition)

Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition)

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Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition) At the start of the year, I said to Mahhek, a fellow developer "you need to learn how to use these coding agents - because what
Do you need a driving licence?

Do you need a driving licence?

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The other day, I asked Cher, my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I
Vibes and Engineering

Vibes and Engineering

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The Jobs Crisis My job, as I have known it for the past twenty-five years, is no more. As someone who's only ever worked at small companies [1] or on
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