2025 Year In Review

Closing out the 36th year of life.

professional

Another year of having a job in big tech. s'been good. My role has converged into a generalist one. I do whatever needs doing, right away. For the first eight months of the year I was using Cursor, thinking that this was pretty good. After picking up Claude Code again, I've barely opened an IDE since.

I was a bit earlier to this one. I wasn't as far-sighted as others, but from my personal experience, I can conclude that most of the job that I've been doing for the last decade or so is a solved problem. There will be some time, and some grief, but SWEs are going to accept it.

I think a lot of SRE/DevOps work is simply solved now with Claude Code in a pod running every few minutes on a cronjob. It's delightful, but it does mean that I'm going to need to find something else to do.

It does look like after a few more turns of the crank they're going to solve white collar work.

World's going to look different soon. Going to need more money!

I have a lot more projects spun up and fired out into the world. None are bearing fruit yet, but the friction is a lot lower now; the activation energy is considerably lessened when I can just write out what I want, update a few setting files with known defaults, and fire off a request to a coding assistant to bring something new into the world.

personal

Everyone is developing. There are challenges. I work on them, break them apart, tidy the crumbs away and move onto the next one.

I don't have the most difficult parenting situation but I do think it's more difficult than most. I try to be grateful. I'm remarkably blessed in many ways.

I've paid a pretty high price to do what I'm doing now. It's been worth it.