Pedro Nagatomo
Developer Backend
- 5
- Followers
Every template you borrow comes with decisions somebody else made for you.
Take an Excel template for tracking sales. A date format, a rule for how blanks are treated, a hidden column feeding a formula, a default filter that leaves out last year. None of it is necessarily wrong....
A spreadsheet that only one person understands is a liability, even when every formula in it is correct.
I’ve opened workbooks where the logic was solid but nothing explained it. No labels on the assumptions, no note on where the data came from, and a hardcoded number in the...
I use ChatGPT almost every day, and there’s a clear line between where it helps and where it quietly hurts.
Where it helps:
- Drafting a formula I already know how to check
- Explaining unfamiliar code so I can decide whether to trust it
- Turning rough notes into a first version I...
An autonomous agent set loose overnight on a refactor can finish the morning having redone its own completed work, not crashed, not errored, just quietly rewriting files it already fixed, hours after it fixed them.
The instinct is to blame the model. But the same model, used...
medium.com
Unattended AI Agents Have a Context Problem Humans Never Had
A team sets an autonomous coding agent loose overnight on a multi-file refactor: rename a core interface, update every call site, adjust…
Most "prompt libraries" are really just a folder of things that worked once.
That's not nothing but it's not reusable either. A prompt that worked for one input, one context, one mood of the model isn't tested, it's lucky. The gap between a saved prompt and an actual system is...
