Posts

Showing posts from October, 2016

SDLC for my homelab is changing

Image
Two articles landed in my queue the same week: Microsoft's New Agentic Software Delivery Primitives and Anthropic's Solving Code Review at Anthropic . Different companies, different scale, same underlying claim: the software delivery lifecycle hasn't changed shape, but where a human's attention goes inside it has moved almost entirely. I read both back to back and realized I wasn't reading about the future. I was reading a description of my Tuesday night. I run a home lab on Paperclip , tl;dr: its an agent farm with project management built in, and it's completely open source. I'm the human in the loop, and I have no other humans on staff (the kids do share ideas tho), then it's just a roster of agents (with different skills and harnesses) that pick up issues, check them out, break down big tasks, write code, open PRs, and escalate when they're stuck. My actual role in this most evenings is not writing code. It's being the one human in the loop ...

Trying Something New

Image
Life is full of changes both personal and professional. Monday marks a big change for me professionally. Monday I start a new job at a new company. I have had a fair number of changes in my career. I've gone from Java developer, to Oracle Database Administrator, to Oracle Everything Administrator, to Java Developer, to team lead/Developer, and now to a new company as a Software Developer. I really enjoyed my time at UW-Madison. I learned a lot and grew my skills as a software engineer. I also got my hands dirty with some system operations. A great group of people with fun opportunities. I'm moving to a newish (8 years old) company called Spredfast. The Spredfast social marketing platform sifts through millions of pieces of social content per minute, so brands can participate in individual conversations or amplify relevant content across any digital screen. The platform allows customers to engage in real-time. Combined with comprehensive data, Spredfast creates more interactio...