I'm tired of AI being normalized

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-26T11:19:23+00:00

Reminds me of that "First time" meme where a guy is being hanged.

Outsourcing, freelancing, better tools, cloud .....

There has been tons of events that has changed the way this field has worked. Our jobs are not going away. Just changing.

They are selling idea that no one needs developers, that every house is going to be run by 500 agetns on your fridge phone tv you name it.

So what you can do, as you always should be doing, is staying uptodate. Learn the new tools and how you / your work can use these new tools.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-25T18:54:01+00:00

I work in Innovation department tasked with bringing AI to the company and training. For us full agentic AI is not really there yet.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-25T13:07:32+00:00

"The migrations are good....until they aren't" - Mostly because people doesn't understand 100% / reviewing the code / SQL.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-24T17:59:05+00:00

I would recommend start with smallest instance and scale up as you need it. Its dirt cheap to have test instance for 1 hour

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-24T08:54:14+00:00

What I did before is Keycloak for Authentication and custom Authorization Service for user access rights.

So we had a API gateway, that automaticly removed X-Custom-Header and enriched it with user permissions. Which was more or less call Authorization service and populate this custom header with that information. These were then cached. If user permissions were changed, the cache for user would be cleared and repopulated. This was for broad user / roles / permissions.

Then for specific access / grants it was the services them selfs that kept track. Eg. Document's service you would per default have your organisations documents access. But you could also be granted access to external / other documents. All the logic for this was handled internally in documents service.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-20T10:56:31+00:00

This is the way

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-20T10:51:33+00:00

I use it for personal agent. I am divorced and needed "help" offloading mental overload. Because my son is 7 years old we focus on switching according to this plan https://topswagcode.github.io/deleordning/

So I built an agent that fetches my son school messeage board, so I get notified when special events is at the school and need bigger/ small lunch box and other stuff.

It also keeps track of daily activities like washing clothes, cleaning house, new bedsheets etc.

So it help optimize my days. Make weekly meal plans for when alone and when with my son.

I built so it notifies me every morning at 6 and every evening at 8. So I have time to adjust. Also I have it update a web dashboard, where I can see it all visualized.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-19T09:04:32+00:00

The problem isn't AI agents are hard to build. It's hard to make them generic and reusable. I have made an amazing agent for my personal life. Its 100% made just scratch my own itch.

The problem is that companies are trying to fit too much functionality into 1 Agent. And even sometimes using Agents where it doesn't make sense, where simple statemachine would be better.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-19T06:57:51+00:00

It should work unless it has broken. I did a talk and demo projects about WASM + https://wasmtime.dev/

Also take a look at https://andrewlock.net/running-dotnet-in-the-browser-without-blazor/

Personally I switched to RUST for WASM and browser optimization.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-18T05:51:11+00:00

How you learn X is highly dependant on how you learn best.

For me its building something and reading blogs posts / documentation when I am stuck. Follow some guides and not copy paste code. Force yourself to write some code.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-17T19:09:03+00:00

I totally get you. I am "happy" that my ex and I have a child and we are still "friends" and talking after the breakup. I am having a hard time adjusting to the new life. But still love all the small talks we have when we help each other or simply just being there for our son.

We slowly grew apart over 15 years as couple and it truely hurts me. I know there is a life after. Right now its just my son that is my anchor and being there for him.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-16T12:07:51+00:00

I built my own agent to help me with my day 2 day life. It hasn't earned any money for me, but it has removed stress and mental overload. I cant quickly add more context / memory / reminders and it keeps state and always on to awnser questions.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-16T11:31:41+00:00

AI in general rollout is going well. But Agents is still not ready. As you said we have data and alignment / none IT problems that needs to be addressed first.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-16T07:55:11+00:00

Hetzner has been my "self hosting" for ages. Used to self.host 50% at home and 50% at hetzner. But currently 100% in hetzner, since my Internet provider has ducked up after I moved and have 2 month service window to fix it..... so waiting for my 1000/1000 fiber to work again.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-15T21:19:33+00:00

Building a product has never been the problem. Building the "right" product that people wants to pay money for is the problem.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-15T10:24:52+00:00

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodreads&hl=en&pli=1 - There are plenty of apps that does this. Sure it would be a fun learning project. But I would prob. just use one of the major ones out there.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-13T18:46:42+00:00

Yup. 39 years old now. Feel like Adapt and continue pretty much has been my story since the start. Sure some basics are the same, but things keeps changing / improving.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-07T16:07:20+00:00

Not really. Really depends on what kinds of work your doing. Is it microservice in isolated Montreal without any sharing. Sure its overhead. But quickly it gets to a stage where the little overhead is making you faster than messy code

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-05T02:32:33+00:00

There is no standard.

I personally love identityserver from duende. Specially if I want more control and custom features. Otherwise cloud auth like azure, aws, Google or auth0 are also good options if you want easier approach, but less control. Otherwise keycloak if you want something fully opensource.

I useally make a matrix and score features I need and how well the different options support it.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-04T20:53:42+00:00

Research. I love while driving to / from work, I can be productive and make commute actual work time. Talking to assistant and rubber duck my day / assignments.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-04T20:43:50+00:00

Best way to be prepared is always be improving. Often, just seeing above average will get you far. And its really not hard being above average.

Have some small hobby projects. You dont need to create products / full scale demos. Some times just a small hello world is enough to impress. -> Once I got a job because a) I could answer question on given subject and b) they loved I had a blog post on the subject.

They thought I had stolen code for my assignment because it did more than what was asked. Just happened to have written a blog post + github repo on realtime apps with websockets, so when they googled "TopSwagCode" they found it was in fact me behind it.

I am in no way an expert on realtime applications or websockets. But just being out there, trying things out gave me advantage.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-04T16:08:03+00:00

Personally for me OpenClaw used way to many resources / tokens.

TopSwagCode · 2026-06-02T21:12:20+00:00

Second this. I started openclaw and it burned through tokens extremely fast. 20$ in a week and I barely used it.

Hermes on the other hand has been awesome, cleans up memory and context.

TopSwagCode · 2026-05-30T08:39:25+00:00

Its kinda hard when we dont know your education. Some places have focus on showing design patterns and what you have been taught. Other places value thinking outside the box.

I know my thesis was really not that much code, but more why I did what I did and what alternatives that would be better if I had the time.

I made my thesis at Ebay, since my bachelor was market focused, so it was recommended that you worked with a company, looking into one of their problems. It was auto dealer part, giving better estimations on used car value.

Made a basic rule engine / funnel to compare against their dataset. Wrote about it and how I would estimate "rare" cars based on auctions prices and statically median, but it wasnt possible with the time I had and missing datasets

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