We live in a new era. AI is no longer a distant promise — it’s here, reshaping how we build software, solve problems, and think about our craft. Over the past few months, I’ve been documenting my journey with AI coding tools on LinkedIn. From building games with Claude Code to running agentic browsers on my phone, these posts capture the moments, experiments, and reflections that define what it means to be a software engineer in 2026.
Here is everything I’ve posted so far, in chronological order.
January 4, 2026
This is the only video you need to watch today, because it highlights a critical thing in an ever-changing world: your job will not be replaced, the tasks within it will. Video: https://lnkd.in/evjDKf7S
In the age of AI, I see software engineers confusing their role with a narrowly defined one of a “coder” and having two regrettable reactions: fear that their coding tasks will be replaced or arrogance that the AI tools won’t be able to replace their coding prowess. Both approaches will leave them stranded because the role of a software engineer is to “engineer” solutions, no matter what that means: docs, processes, systems, code and everything in between.
The third reaction is to use AI as a tool, like any other tool. Your coding skills are not dead; you just upgraded to the role of architect and supervisor, and you know what good code and sound systems look like. Get the AI to do the tedious tasks, enjoy your role as a software engineer, not a code churner.
Some software engineers will be replaced by other software engineers who use AI.
January 21, 2026
AI is here.
If you don’t use Claude code or similar, you should start right now.
If you have an idea and want to quickly sketch it, then tools like Claude Code can do stuff like this small blocks game in less than 5 hours, mostly me testing and feeding back screenshots of logs and errors: https://lnkd.in/eKyUJRZ6
Github repo for that is here: https://lnkd.in/eyQwzEhN
AI is not replacing humans, it just replaces tasks and helps you play with ideas faster. In future you will wake up in the morning and ask the AI to build an app which you will then delete by evening because it served it’s purpose. Better yet, the AI will build apps before you ask 😀
January 24, 2026
After Claude Code wrote 3.5K lines of code today it needed a break 😀 I could update from Pro to Max. I could but I’d need to drink less beer 😀
Just imagine how much time would I, a software engineer, need to spend to write even a small utility function just to get the correct rendering in a 2D canvas using JavaScript. Then expand this to 3.5K lines of code. (I know, as software engineers we’re not paid for lines of code, but I use them as a proxy for time/effort for people outside software engineering).
Also, sub-agents in Claude Code are a life changer.
I ask the architect agent to start a job to animate pixel cats and then it directs the sub-agents to work in sequence:
– the researcher agent finds info about transitions, ways to animate, cat sprites and caching;
– then it hands off the output to the planner agent, which creates the to-do list and other things to update and where do update them;
– then the implementer agent implements the changes and after it finishes the work;
– it hands off to the unit tester agent which asks me to check the page after it creates the unit tests;
– and then I hit the limit and need to wait 4 hours.
January 26, 2026
I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: Devin Foundations Badge from Cognition!
January 29, 2026
Coding on the phone? Nope. Too difficult to write and read big batches of code.
The story is different when you have an LLM in your CLI on mobile. You connect your Git repo, setup mobile terminal and then ask your trusted AI to work while you’re listening to Spotify on the move.
AI coding on the phone? Yes, please.
January 31, 2026
If you wanted to use Groq AI and it was difficult setting a CLI for it, I created a repo for that: https://lnkd.in/eEpBNVU8
February 5, 2026
In the era of AI coding you live in a reality where you have a small ask or feedback and instead of opening the chat window to speak to a given customer representative you start up Claude CLI and code that functionality. Right here, right now.
This happened to me today when I opened YouTube Subscriptions feed on https://lnkd.in/edmCWcdx and noticed that the Grid/List toggle was gone.
After a couple of prompts Claude CLI created the following repo for me: https://lnkd.in/egDG7Zsv
It is a bookmarklet which you can put in your browser as a bookmark and then toggle the Grid/List functionality. Now I have my list view back. Improved even.
In previous years I had 1 new repository on Github every couple of years. Now I have 5 in last month alone. We live in the era of throwaway apps, when you can create apps and pages which would’ve taken teams days, weeks or months before and make use of them 1-2 times and then forget about them.
Personalisation will look like a joke when all these AI coding apps come to full force. Hyper-personalisation is the future.
February 10, 2026
If you use Groq (not the one from X), then you can use my Github page to converse with several free AI models: https://lnkd.in/eY9wMMv2
It uses a BYOK, Bring Your Own Key, system in which you bring your Groq API key, that key is stored in your browser and then you make secure calls to Groq servers using the UI I created with Claude AI.
Initially I had the AI build a CLI wrapper for a Groq NodeJs file and then jumped on the web UI bandwagon.
Feedback welcome.
February 28, 2026
Glad to be using Claude. Hitting the limits quite often when I ask it to work on projects.
The way I approach a new project:
– have the legal researcher agent research the legal part of the thing I want build (webpage, Chrome extension)
– then have Claude Opus interview me about what I want built
– then have Opus build an implementation plan based on legal details, questions and requirements
– then hand over to Sonnet to implement the work.I just need to wait for a couple of hours for the limit to reset. Thankfully, the Sun is out today in London 😀
March 14, 2026
The future is here.
A while back I told Claude AI in my terminal to go to my Gmail account in my open browser and collect the stock market recommendations from a certain folder. It returned a table with the required information.
For that you normally only need the Claude chrome extension and you can simply ask it in there to perform those actions, but I wanted to do it from my terminal.
You need:
– Claude CLI for terminal
– Claude chrome extension
– login in both to your claude account
– do something else while it is working in the background.Note: these tools are the worst they can be. In the future they will be better.
In the future you will have an AI of your own living 24/7 on your device doing a million things autonomously for you. It already knows more than Google, Meta or anyone else about you and it will autonomously do your shopping for you.
March 17, 2026
If you have a Claude Pro subscription and the Chrome extension, you can do almost anything on the web — from managing your emails and calendar to filling out forms and researching across multiple tabs. Here’s an example: I asked Claude to check my Gmail for a Google Calendar confirmation, and it handled it seamlessly!
March 22, 2026
Have long content read back to you
I’m subscribed to UK Gov newsletter and it sends a weekly email with about 200 news items, title and a short descriptions + datetime and some other meta info.
Since I am bored when reading long emails I tried using Reading Mode + Voice Reading from Chrome and found it lacking in the sense that it was reading everything from that email, including date and time when a news item had been published. Really annoying.
So, I used Claude Code browser extension and told it to collect only the titles and descriptions from that email. After it created that list I copied it to https://lnkd.in/eZMf42kq and let their AI voice (Zira (US)) voice soothe me with their reading, later choosing 1-2 news items to read.
March 24, 2026
Agentic browser testing on my phone
I have Termux terminal installed on my Android phone and wanted to use Agent Browser from Vercel to do some live browser testing of a website.
As it happens there is no version of Agent Browser which can be used in Termux, so Claude sonnet simply recompiled the entire code using a small tweak to a config file, then looked for tons of solutions to multiple issues it encountered on the way.
After more than 1 hour of working on the task and minimal input from me Claude was able to test websites using Agent Browser. Previously such tasks would’ve taken me days or weeks to finish, but the AI resolved everything in around 1 hour.
And yes, I had Claude run with the “dangerously skip permissions” flag.
March 25, 2026
Imagine being able to send an email from your terminal. It’s simpler than you’d think. You need Claude CLI installed on your machine and ensure that it can use MCP Chrome. Then make sure you’re logged into your email client on the web, like Gmail. Then in the terminal ask Claude to craft an email message and then instruct it to send the email to a certain person using the MCP. A couple of seconds later it will open a new Chrome tab with Gmail, it will look for the person you mentioned, it will write the email and send it. It is not “claw” stuff, but it gets close. The future is here.