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timabell / ai-coding-history-gpt.md
Created May 11, 2026 21:50
ChatGPT: AI coding history June 2021 - May 2026

The Last Five Years of AI Coding

Five years ago, AI coding tools were mostly autocomplete gimmicks. They could save keystrokes, generate boilerplate, and occasionally surprise you with something useful, but nobody serious thought they were close to replacing real engineering work.

Today, frontier systems can operate inside repositories for hours, coordinate multiple agents, run tests, debug failures, and ship substantial features with limited supervision.

The speed of progress has been absurd.

The important shift wasn’t just “models got smarter”. The entire paradigm changed several times: from autocomplete, to conversational coding, to tool use, to autonomous agents, to full software engineering systems.

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timabell / awol-hashes.sh
Last active June 9, 2025 20:09
AWOL file (hash) finder - compare two hash files, find what's gone missing
#!/bin/sh
# AWOL file (hash) finder - compare two hash files, find what's gone missing
# https://gist.github.com/timabell/f7f776c7f0792ea13ef44798082b9935
# https://github.com/timabell/md5-tools binary must be on the path
# https://github.com/timabell/paths2html binary must be on the path
set -e
# Display help message
show_help() {
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timabell / azure-devops.sh
Created February 11, 2025 15:57
Clone all git repos in an azure devops org/project
#!/bin/bash
# list and clone repos on azure devops
# Written by gpt with a bit of prompting https://chatgpt.com/share/67ab6f86-fc00-8006-b3f8-a1c9bd252fe7
# Check if Azure CLI is installed
check_az_cli() {
if ! command -v az &> /dev/null; then
echo "Error: Azure CLI is not installed. Please install it first."
exit 1
fi
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timabell / multiples-grid.md
Created November 28, 2024 17:42
Example output for phone tech screen question
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20
3	6	9	12	15	18	21	24	27	30
4	8	12	16	20	24	28	32	36	40
5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50
6	12	18	24	30	36	42	48	54	60
7	14	21	28	35	42	49	56	63	70
8	16	24	32	40	48	56	64	72	80
9	18	27	36	45	54	63	72	81	90
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Create your application to work without either a UI or a database so you can run automated regression-tests against the application, work when the database becomes unavailable, and link applications together without any user involvement.
Japanese translation of this article at http://blog.tai2.net/hexagonal_architexture.html
Spanish translation of this article at http://academyfor.us/posts/arquitectura-hexagonal courtesy of Arthur Mauricio Delgadillo
original explanation w updates at http://wiki.c2.com/?HexagonalArchitecture and http://wiki.c2.com/?PortsAndAdaptersArchitecture
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timabell / dependency-injeciton-in-rust.md
Last active May 3, 2023 10:33
GPT tells me all the ways of doing DI in Rust
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timabell / clippy.txt
Created February 18, 2023 10:36
gitopolis clippy linting output, first rust lint ever
tim@max:~/repo/gitopolis (main)
$ cargo clippy
warning: this `else { if .. }` block can be collapsed
--> src/repos.rs:84:11
|
84 | } else {
| ____________________^
85 | | if !repo.tags.iter().any(|s| s == &tag_name.to_string()) {
86 | | repo.tags.push(tag_name.to_string());
87 | | }
[[repos]]
path = "gitopolis"
tags = ["tim"]
[repos.remotes.origin]
name = "origin"
url = "git@github.com:timabell/gitopolis.git"
[[repos]]
path = "schema-explorer"
tags = ["tim", "databases"]
# Begin Open GApps Install Log
------------------------------------------------------------------
ROM Android version | 127
ROM Build ID | twrp_lemonadep-eng 127 RQ1A.210205.004 6 test-keys
ROM Version increment | 6
ROM SDK version | 30
ROM/Recovery modversion |
Device Recovery | TWRP 3.6.0_11-0-d0b854b3
Device Name | OnePlus9Pro
Device Model | OnePlus 9 Pro 5G
#!/bin/sh
# run with `source fix-omnisharp-asdf.sh` to ensure environment variables are made available
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70820780/vscode-or-anothers-editors-dont-recognize-sdk-dotnet-installed-with-asdf/70820974#70820974
# tell omnisharp where to find the current dotnet sdk installed by asdf-vm
version=`asdf current dotnet-core | awk '{print $2}'`
echo "Parsed version: $version"
export DOTNET_MSBUILD_SDK_RESOLVER_SDKS_DIR=$(echo $HOME/.asdf/installs/dotnet-core/$version/sdk/$version/Sdks)
export DOTNET_MSBUILD_SDK_RESOLVER_SDKS_VER=$version