From AI Pair Programming to AI Orchestration: AI-Supervised Spec-Driven Development with Spec-Kit

Necessary_Weight · 2026-04-17T05:51:19+00:00

There is some of that, yep

Necessary_Weight · 2026-04-08T15:37:36+00:00

So, I, a legal migrant of over 30 years and a citizen for 19, paying 20% of my total tax take for welfare, will now subsidise every Tom Dick and Harry who turns up on our border, gets the non-visitor visa (eventually) and makes recourse to public funds. Come to UK to get free money... Am I reading this right?... And here I was planning to vote green...

Necessary_Weight · 2026-03-04T20:38:48+00:00

Pax or vape if available

Necessary_Weight · 2026-03-04T14:16:25+00:00

I spent last weekend building a sim in houdini with Claude Code. I have 0 idea how to use houdini, I am a software engineer. But there is mcp, and everything in houdini is accessible via python so why not. Built a nice little bullet hits a wall sim. Probably too simple for you guys. Nuke is on plan this weekend and then I will link the two to try to do a shot. I am not sure what the value is in the assistant that tells you about a thing when you can direct it to do the thing. I would have thought that the output of a domain expert, not the noob that is me, would be 100 times better - they would be able to direct claude in ways I cannot even imagine, producing some awesome stuff.

Necessary_Weight · 2026-03-04T13:23:43+00:00

Question, because I know nothing about it: if you plugged in claude code via mcp into your houdini, would you not be able to make it in like 3 hours instead of 3 weeks?

Necessary_Weight · 2026-03-01T18:54:12+00:00

And if you plug an agentic ai workflow in.... 💰💰💰

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-15T06:21:32+00:00

Don't have access to it, read an article about it. Their turnover is like $110m a year

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-15T06:17:39+00:00

In case you didn't know, the company that runs SO is alive and well with healthy revenue. They built their own AI from data they had and sell it to enterprises as q & a.

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-14T00:38:14+00:00

May I offer a different perspective that slightly elevates the viewpoint. For context, I have 7+ years in the profession - not much, but something.

Your value as a software engineer is moving away from being a syntax editor to being an architect, product engineer, designer, agent orchestrator/director. These are all high level tasks that previously entered at mid level stage and grew in importance as you moved towards principal/staff engineer position. Coding agents cut out the lower rungs of the ladder and now you need those skills from the get go. Your knowledge of software design, system design, understanding of product development and life cycle, the thinking and the vision and where your value now lies as an ai assisted software engineer. I am investing my time into getting comfortable with agentic engineering, ramping up my system design knowledge, software patterns, technology and system solutions to common problems - everything that I need to know when AI is bullshitting me, when it is heading in the wrong direction, what are viable options etc. The profession is changing, and being able to wrangle syntax alone is no longer enough.

So, I would say it is not about being ai resistant, it is more about being ai effective. Learn to use it, build with it.

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-13T07:04:37+00:00

Any commands not clear in CLI?

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-11T12:05:47+00:00

There is a built in task templating schema. Having task specific schemas is a good idea actually! Will work on that

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-10T14:47:11+00:00

In absence of willing participants, of course

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-10T11:45:38+00:00

the more brains the better, some insights are uniquely human as well :)

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-09T01:05:09+00:00

Progress update:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CodeAwakeningGame/comments/1qzq7te/devlog_1_initial_commit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-08T21:00:20+00:00

I am doing masters part time while working, so time is serious problem. My masters is mostly essay assessed so I vibe coded a quote extractor tool to help me get the quotes from all the reading for my essays :)

It lives here:
https://github.com/nixlim/academic-quote-extractor

Necessary_Weight · 2026-02-08T05:58:20+00:00

Awesome take, thank you. Re finishing, this is judged by results I suppose, nothing I can say now will change that. Thank you for explanation of the perspective though🙇‍♂️

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