72% of us are not vibe coding

A lot of neglectance on my behalf around the newsletter! Coming back this week red hot.

As seems to be the trend for 2025, every week feels like headlines are dominated by AI. Job prospects still seem a little bleak in my eyes.

To see how we are vibing with our new AI overlord's, StackOverflow released their yearly survey with an AI addition to see if we are satisfied with our new way of living. Turns out 72% of us aren't with the vibe (coding). Way to stick it to the machine!

Headlines

• Claude Opus 4.1: I'm team Claude at the moment, so I'm excited to see what they've been cooking up.
• GPT-5: Not to be outdone, OpenAI had a quick follow up (just in time for my pro subscription to end).
• OpenAI gps-oss: Even more surprising... OpenAI released open source models!
• Cursor CLI: Cursor have also joined the CLI tooling arena. Plenty of competition to go around here...
• StackOverflow's 2025 Developer Survey is out: Worth a read as always. Incredible that 32.4% of developers are working remotely.
• DHH introduces his opinionated archlinux setup Omarchy: It's a great time to jump to Linux if you've been on the fence. I use arch btw.

This section should be renamed to "recent AI headlines". I don't know about all of you, but I can't keep up.

What's caught my attention

• Multigres | High Availability and Postgres full-sync replication: Multigres post walking through some of their plans for supporting high availability. Here is a bonus podcast with the PlanetScale CEO that also dives into their Postgres product journey.
• Intercom | Evolving Intercom's database infrastructure: Speaking of PlanetScale... I recently read into some of the companies that took the plunge to migrate towards PlanetScale. Some interesting reads!
• YouTube | Ryan Peterman | Amazon VP Ethan Evans on promotions, getting fired twice and working with Bezos: Every now and then I hear or watch something that is almost brutally refreshing in it's honesty, but still brutal...
• Lessons from scaling PostgreSQL queues to 100k event per second: Very insightul post. I've come full cirle and am back on team "no database zoos" please and want to squeeze everything I can out of one database again.
• Sidequest.js:A new background job processor that looks more flexible than BullMQ. I'm loving the look of the API and the fact that it can work with different SQL databases has my attention for the same reasons as above on the database zoo.
• Vitest 4 is in beta
• Agentic Coding Things That Didn't Work: Armin has done a deeper dive than I have into agentic coding, so he has some fascinating lessons to share.
• 6 Weeks of Claude Code: Great read. Very relatable.
• The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade: Wasn't sure how to feel after reading this one... great recount on an integral part of history for ECMAScript (p.s. free JavaScript!).
• AWS released their learning and community content center
• Hanami and the elephant in the room: A great read about why Hanami is great for a Ruby ecosystem that already has Ruby on Rails.
• Fireship on the Genie 3 model: Absolutely bonkers what we're starting to see come out.
• Pragmatic Engineer: Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering: Great listen. Amazing to compare notes on my own experiences with AI so far.

What I'm doing

• Refactoring an abstraction to help me work with some Node.js object streams
• I bootloaded Omarcy onto a Beelink SER 5 I picked up during Prime Day sales
• Recently finished Effective TypeScript and began my internal war on TypeScript Private Elements vs Private Modifiers.
• Rebuilt my partner's website for her Onigiri market stall. It's our little community outlet and the staging websites are entirely built with CloudFront functions (a post may be in the works for this).
• I am working on some side projects in Golang for something different. Picked up 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them and have been working through Alex Edwards' Let's Go and Let's Go Further books. All three are excellent.
• I configured NATS onto my homelab and now it's become a nice way to interface between the different servers I have running.
• After a year of smashing an unbelivably comprehensive list of goals over the last year, everyone at my company got a payrise of ~2%. Very disappointing and feeling bad for all my mentors who have been helping me through the year. Been rethinking my career and what it means to actively work towards promotions. A lot of good content out there on A Life Engineered.

That's it from my end. Let's collectively pray it won't be another eight months between drinks.

Catch you on the flip! 👋