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Generating diagrams for unfamiliar codebases using an AI skill
Everyone who has worked in software has experience poring over multiple codebases trying to understand how all the different pieces of functionality interact. One of my first starter tasks when I joined Sentry was to learn more about the Celery integration for Sentry's Python SDK and, more specifically,
Give Your AI Coding Assistant Something to Work With: A Case Study
Over my winter break, I'd been noodling over a new side project idea related to Ontario politics. I used to enjoy following what goes on, but these days looking at news articles and reading the email campaigns from my local politicians feels a bit click-bait-y and stress-inducing. I
What I learned from Anthropic's "Building with the Claude API" course
I decided to take this course in order to get a high-level understanding of all the features that Claude had to offer, and a better understanding of how these services worked under the hood, as well as patterns and best practices when interacting with them over an API. I figured
How I use AI
Like so many others, I've been experimenting with a number of different AI-powered tools to find the ones that work best for my style of working and how I learn. For folks trying to get some ideas of how to start applying AI in their workflows, I hope
Exploring the world of AI-powered code mods with Codemod
In a past job life, a lot of the codebase I had been working in was written in Coffeescript. There was a strong desire to move towards Typescript, but the transition was slow because it was done on the initiative of various engineers or whenever it was possible to incorporate
