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I had an interesting exchange with a coding agent this evening. Are coding agents useful? Absolutely. But can it take a software engineer’s job? You tell me. Me: In .gitlab-ci.yml, can we set the workflow name only if the PLAYBOOK variable is set? AI: 1 2 3 4 5 workflow: name: "Playbook ${PLAYBOOK}" rules: - if: $PLAYBOOK != "" - when: always The workflow.name only takes effect when matched by a rule, so on push pipelines (where $PLAYBOOK is empty) it falls through to when: al...

I have been running Toph for over ten years. Somewhere along the way, I started wondering: what hours of the day do I actually work on it? Commit timestamps felt like the right place to look. A quick one-off script could answer the question, and there are Git stats tools that spit out HTML reports. But I thought: this could be a good excuse to build a TUI application. Something like htop, but for a Git repository instead of system metrics.