Stuck in the Filter - W26
2025-06-27
These links for various reasons didn't make it into my public content. They come in many different formats and cover a range of topics that I found interesting or useful. Whether they were too niche, incomplete, or simply didn't fit the overall flow, these links are still valuable resources for some reason they caught my attention.
How a 91-year-old vibe coded a complex event management system using Claude and Replit | John Blackman
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-a-91-year-old-vibe-coded-a-complex
Watch now | Learn the AI workflow John Blackman used to build a full event platform for his church
State of Devs 2025
https://2025.stateofdevs.com/en-US
“These questions feel really personal”; ”This is going to be too controversial”; “You should stick to programming surveys”.
The Generalist Engineer | Daniel Garcia | Substack
https://generalistengineer.substack.com
The Generalist engineer role in a startup is rare and complex; this is your guide. Click to read The Generalist Engineer, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
The Limits of Automation
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wfZW39du3tST2gnWs/the-limits-of-automation
The classic LessWrong frontpage algorithm that combines karma with time discounting, plus any tag-based weighting if applied.
Learn like a lurker: Gen Z’s digital-first lifestyle and the future of knowledge - Stack Overflow
Every generation receives some level of get-off-my-lawn-ism—the unavoidable battering of older generations upon the young about work ethic, lifestyle, and morality. As Gen Z myself, I’ve become well-adjusted to it. And not to be a generation traitor, I do think I’m a bit brain rotted. The prevalence of fingerwagging at Gen Z doesn’t surprise me anymore, so when I started at Stack, I wasn’t surprised by the 415th episode of the Stack Overflow Podcast, entitled “Gen Z doesn’t understand file structures.” The title makes the episode sound more critical than it is—the conversation is a fun ride through getting ratio’d by KPop Twitter and how age-old institutions like higher education are having to adjust to the way Gen Z thinks. But it highlights a reality: that Zoomers navigate the technical world very differently than generations past.
cubic – Cursor for code review
https://mrge-home.framer.website/blog/learnings-from-building-ai-agents
Code review for the AI era. cubic helps modern software teams ship higher-quality code at record speed.
Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/two-years-of-using-ai
How to think about today’s AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
Que el LLM no te tape el bosque #2 - ese gran malentendido llamado user stories
Nunca conocí personalmente a Kent Beck. Lo que voy a contar está basado en algo que le escuché Alistair Cockburn, quien supuestamente lo charló con el bueno de Kent.
Acknowledgments
I didn't invented the idea of grabbing everything I couldn't process and putting it in a document. I just borrowed it (the idea and the name) from the 'Angry Metal Guy' website, which has been doing this for years. You can check their Stuck in the Filter series for more details.
