https://volyx.in/tags/engineering/ Recent content in Engineering on volyx https://volyx.in/images/avatar.png https://volyx.in/images/avatar.png Hugo -- 0.155.2 en Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-24-the-reviewer-cant-read-code/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-24-the-reviewer-cant-read-code/ I pushed to prod without reading the code. So did my reviewer. So what is code review actually for now — and the answer is sadder than you'd think. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-23-multiply-your-salary-by-0-11/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-23-multiply-your-salary-by-0-11/ Uber capped Cursor and Claude Code at $1,500 per engineer per month. Do the math against the average salary and you get a number. Not a simple number. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-22-brave-new-native-world/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-22-brave-new-native-world/ Managers have a new favorite: the AI-Native Team. You're not an engineer anymore — you're a Builder. And if you can't deploy to prod from your phone, there's work to do. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-21-no-one-left-to-say-no/ Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-21-no-one-left-to-say-no/ A colleague who decided AI meant he no longer needed other people. The slop now flows straight from his head into prod, and he's doing great. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-20-big-big-tech/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-20-big-big-tech/ People go to Big Tech for the big projects. Lately the only thing that stays big is the layoffs, the reorgs, and the AI hysteria. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-19-skill-issues/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-19-skill-issues/ We replaced the morning log-triage with a cron-scheduled skill. It works great. We just need somewhere to track everything it gets wrong. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-18-all-hands-on-the-prompt/ Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-18-all-hands-on-the-prompt/ A serious bug, a war room, five engineers — and not a single file changes hands. Only prompts. And the agent agrees with every one of them. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-17-agile-wasnt-flexible-enough/ Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-17-agile-wasnt-flexible-enough/ Sprints, planning, standups — gone. The agents don't need them. And the Scrum coaches? They're doing just fine, thanks. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-16-adgentic-daily/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-16-adgentic-daily/ A day in the life, one tmux pane at a time. Every pane is a feral agentic loop, and none of them have stopped. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-16-no-silver-bullet/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-16-no-silver-bullet/ We spent decades repeating that there's no silver bullet. Then AI showed up, and apparently there is one — you just bolt it onto everything. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-15-the-only-way-tech-lead-way/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-15-the-only-way-tech-lead-way/ The fork in the road between tech lead and people manager is gone. There's only one path left — and we're all walking it without managers, but with Claude. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-13-tokenmaxxing-orchestrator/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-13-tokenmaxxing-orchestrator/ Programmers tokenmaxx, managers token-flex, and everything must run through an AI bot. The logical conclusion is, of course, an orchestrator. https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-12-tokenmaxxing/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://volyx.in/en/posts/2026-05-12-tokenmaxxing/ Everyone thinks tokenmaxxing means stuffing the biggest possible context into the model. It's the opposite.