Bored and Confused

I’m bored. And I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ve been writing software for about thirty-five years. I’ve been getting paid for writing software for almost thirty years. In February I realised that what I did had fundamentally changed. That’s right, I’m talking about coding agents. I’m still working as software developer, I’m still shipping code every week. In fact I’m probably shipping more code than I ever have before. I’ve managed to get my clankers to handle most of the parts of the job that I don’t like - code review, estimation, boring stuff. I’ve got a process that, for the most part, I can trust the clankers to write and release code which works - without security issues, generally bug-free, reasonably well-structured and understandable. But now I’m bored. And also confused. A while back I started on a full rewrite of my plumbing gemDon’t try using it - the rewrite is not ready. The first part of the rewrite was entirely clanker-driven. I explained what I wanted, it…