Itches I Have Scratched (November 2026)

My background is databases, SQL, ETL, all that kind of thing. Not coding. Well, maybe a hack (and a dirty one) at best - BBC Basic in the old days, VBA in Excel a long time ago, and more recently even trying to learn Go. All enough to just about get by, none to seriously trouble anyone for whom this is actually their job. And I was quite content with continuing my next decades as I’d spent my previous ones, thinking of fun software, occasionally finding the time to hack at something trivial, but nothing more. And then agentic coding came along, and turned my world upside down :)

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