Xe Iaso's blog is an independent blog covering systems & infrastructure and programming. It publishes multiple times per week, with 17 posts in its archive and 4 readers following along on Blogs Are Back.
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I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction
Whenever I have Claude do something for me, I feel nothing about the results. It feels like something happens around me, not through me. That's the new level of abstraction: you stop writing code and start describing intent. You stop crafting and start delegating. I've been doing this professionally long enough to have an opinion, and I don't like what it's doing to me. All of it focuses on getting things done rather than on quality or craft. I'm more productive than I've ever been. I sh...
Vibe Coding Trip Report: Making a sponsor panel
I'm on medical leave recovering from surgery. Before I went under, I wanted to ship one thing I'd been failing to build for months: a sponsor panel at sponsors.xeiaso.net. Previous attempts kept dying in the GraphQL swamp. This time I vibe coded it — pointed agent teams at the problem with prepared skills and let them generate the gnarly code I couldn't write myself. And it works. The GraphQL swamp Go and GraphQL are oil and water. I've held this opinion for years and not...
Some Thorns Have Roses
Nobody warns you about the part where you don't want recovery to end. I've been turning this over for days, not sure I'm allowed to say it out loud. You spend weeks dreading surgery, you survive it, and then somewhere between the catheter bag and the third box of hospital tissues you catch yourself thinking: oh. I'm going to miss this. Not the pain or the catheter. The thing underneath, the thing you only found because everything else got stripped away. CadeyBefore anyone says it...
Using Clankers to Help Me Process Surgery
Recovery from major surgery is not a single event. It's a long, strange hallway of days that blur together, punctuated by vital checks and medication schedules and the weird glow of hospital curtains at 4 AM. I've written about the surgery itself, about the medication dreams, and about how to survive a hospital stay. But there's something I haven't talked about yet: what I actually did with the noise in my head during the worst of it. At 4 AM, when the painkillers are wearing off and you...
Advice for staying in the hospital for a week
As I mentioned in my last couple posts, I recently got out of the hospital after a week-long stay. I survived the surgery, I survived the recovery, and now I'm home with some hard-won wisdom about what it's actually like to be stuck in a hospital bed for seven straight days. If you or someone you love is about to go through something similar, here's what I wish someone had told me. CadeyNone of this is medical advice. I'm a software engineer who spent a week as a patient, not a d...
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