About 5x on general tasks.

About infinite on boring tasks I might not do and keep putting off.

I manage monorepos using Projen and CC is quite good with that with just a small skill.

I was in a similar situation a few years back. I wasn’t only focusing on CRUD, but it was a large part of my work too. Mostly working on web-based SaaS projects.

I started learning infra via AWS CDK (TypeScript). And by osmosis learned a lot about cloud native application architecture. Which changed my way of creating web apps entirely and rejuvenated my love for software. Still going strong 5 years later. Now with much stronger focus on platform engineering and not working on features much.

Looks like I'm in that path you've already passed. From January I have to learn CDK because my current job requires me to do. Also planning on to obtain those AWS Cloud Certificates.

And for those who may not know the founder of Dagger is the same guy who founded Docker - Solomon Hykes.

I loved the original promise of Dagger and it’s still 90% great.

But one flaw (IMO) that it can’t export artifacts and import into other steps without breaking the cache.

Eg if you provide monorepo as input, and then on some step narrow your build to one specific dir, then even when files change outside of that dir then caching still is invalidated.

Which makes it extremely verbose and maintenance nightmare to keep multiple narrow inputs and keep all those paths up to date.

You can filter input directories before they are loaded, to avoid this. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to get precise cache invalidation in a large monorepo. If you want, DM me on the Dagger Discord and I'll help you out!

I think the article is about “copywriters” who aren’t true copywriters but those who were writing junk articles for SEO.

Once AI can write proper compelling converting copy then I’ll change my mind.

How do you know you aren’t reading it every day?

Because I tried using LLMs to write a compelling copy for a landing page and it’s just not that great. I tried a lot. A real copywriter will do a lot of research about your ICP and write targeted copy.

This tell us more about your (lacking) skills at using AI than the state of AI tools themselves.

You're probably using the free lobotomized versions of LLMs, and shooting a one-off short ambiguous prompt and wondering why it didn't turn out the way you imagined.

Meanwhile people spend hundreds of dollars on pro LLM access and learn to use tool calling, deep research, agents and context engineering.

No, I was using top tier models (paid) and even had an extensive eval test suite against multiple models.

Understood.

For npm ecosystem I use changesets.

Do you have any recommended reading on the topic of refinements in architectures? Thank you.

I wonder if the author had some more profound message?

Is it about pulverizing software artifacts into token statistics?

What remains is not "code", but code-shaped matter?

It’s not an alternative at all. Terraform CDK is basically TypeScript transpired to HCL. You can codegen TypeScript bindings for any provider. And then write normal TypeScript.

> Terraform CDK is basically TypeScript transpired to HCL

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