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today's my 1st anniversary at Shopify - it's borderline insane how much the role of software engineer has shifted in a year. Been in this company genuinely feels like living at the bleeding edge at what coding is shaping up to be:

Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra

@kelset.dev

11 Aug

Literally today (not making this up) I was coding our Shop mobile apps with my local agents, in parallel reviewing/tophatting a colleague's PR, hit a bug while testing it, spun up a different agent to help me debug it, figured out it was a backend issue,

Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra

@kelset.dev

11 Aug

used a fourth agent in Slack to dig into that (River, you might have heard about it from Tobi here x.com/tobi/status... ) and via it I made a PR to fix this backend issue (in an area of code I've never touched before) and then a different CI reviewer agent flagged something

Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra

@kelset.dev

that then River went ahead and took care of until the PR was ready to go and CI was green. It did loop on that PR basically unsupervised, while I was digging deeper with a secondary River instance into the details and impact of the bug across prod, looking through data.

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Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra

@kelset.dev

11 Aug

I've hit that bug around 10:30am, and by... somewhen between 2 and 3pm, the fix rolled out in prod - after some backenders and colleagues from the area owning team were looped into the whole situation and reviewed&approved my River PR.

Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra

@kelset.dev

11 Aug

We are truly living through a full mindshift of what software building is, and what you need to do and what are the tools in your belt. I'm lucky to be in a place where I can experience it full power in first person (the good and the bad). Onto the next year 🧑‍💻🤖🧑‍💻