It was February 2026 when I realised that software development had completely changed and I essentially stopped writing code by hand. Over the next couple of months I changed our Linear statuses and set up a couple of claude code instances, running in tmux, with cron jobs set to deal with various scenarios. The basic idea was “these are the parts of my job that I don’t enjoy, let’s automate them away”. In particular, I don’t like estimating work and I find code review deathly boring. In the olden days (last year), when we got a new piece of work...