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bigblind parent
I'd love to be able to watch people work, who say that they're sucessful with these tools. If there are any devs live streaming software development on Twitch, or just making screen casts (without too many cuts) of how they use these tools in day-to-day work, I'd love to see it.
simonw
Armin Ronacher has done some of those: https://www.youtube.com/@ArminRonacher
maqnius
I skimmed through one of the videos and it reminded me of how I just had a week of mainly reviewing other's code and supporting their work.

When I finally had the occasion to code myself, I felt so much better and less stressed at the end of the day.

My point is: what I just saw is hopefully not my future.

I sometimes read the opinion, that those who like the programming part of software engineering, don't like „agentic engineering“ and vica versa. But can we really assume that Armin Ronacher doesn't like programming?

simonw
It's easy to find counter-examples to that idea that people who like working with coding agents don't enjoy programming. I'm one of those people - I'm enjoying myself so much getting agents to build stuff for me, and I've enjoyed the craft of programming for 25+ years. I'm doing what I did before, just faster and with less time spent on the frustrating, repetitive bits.
esafak
Same here. I like debating the architecture, API, schema, algorithms, data structures, and user experience. Once all that is done, I hand off the implementation.
bdangubic
sooooo much this. I am in the same 25+ (almost 30) and more and more thinking that there is something there that us “veterans” dig this so much. perhaps it is the discipline we have built over the years that is being applied religiously with agents…
lysecret
+1 for him he got me into agentic coding earlier this year.
jrk
If you go just a few posts back in Peter's own blog he has a video of himself doing exactly this:

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/live-coding-session-building-...

He has posted others over the past few months, but they don't seem to be on his blog currently.

As @simonw mentions in a peer comment, Armin Ronacher also has several great streams (and he's less caffeinated and frenetic than Peter :)

jasondjk
I recorded a bunch of videos like this for Ruby on Rails. This one is generically relevant about operating Claude hands free with —dangerously-skip-permissions and importantly sandboxing it in a separate user account for security: https://insidertrades.directory/built-with-rails/claude-code...
mitjam
I've watched quite a few and got many good ideas, but it's taking a lot of time that's sometimes better spent with "deliberate practice". I learned more and faster by attending courses by people I already follow and love taking advice from. Earning money with it gives them the time needed to structure and prepare the material.

For example, I'm currently taking the "Elite AI Assisted Coding" (https://maven.com/kentro/context-engineering-for-coding) course by Eleanor Berger and Isaac Flath and learned a lot from their concise presentations and demos and challenging homework assignments which certainly took a long time to prepare.

FitchApps
My 2c - AI-first is awesome for rapid prototyping / POC but beyond that the devs should own the project and use AI sparingly. I'm not saying AI agents aren't capable, I'm saying that your skills will shift from problem solving/coding to managing AI and whatever code it produces

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