November 2025. That’s when we officially “got there.”
Any software developer who is not learning how to make the most of these tools is going to find themselves left behind in short order.
I have never been an “AI optimist;” I’ve always thought of AI as glorified autocomplete.
That changed when I tried Claude Code + Opus 4.5 at the end of 2025.
I’m not speaking just for effect when I say that software development has changed, practically overnight, and it will never be the same again.
If you’re a skeptic, read this article:
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what
Cardinal in Snow
Sunsets
It’s been a nice couple of weeks for sunset photography.
Woke up too early, decided to take a picture of the moon.
This image is composed of 30 stacked frames taken without a tripod. The exposure was decent at f/11, 1/1600 and ISO 1600 using a lens at 500mm. I would have preferred a slower shutter speed (with lower ISO) but did not feel like setting up the tripod at 4am. Stacking was used to align the images and average out the noise, then some processing was done to bring out more detail and color.
SwordSearcher 9.1 released today! Also, I am still here.
Just popping in to say hi, and to let any of you who still somehow stumble upon my blog know that I am still around and I continue to develop SwordSearcher.
And lest you disbelieve me, I offer as evidence that I released a new version today.
