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Andrew Atkinson

Andrew Atkinson

Software engineer and author of "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails," currently working on scaling Ruby on Rails at Aura Frames.

Sep 24, 2026

32:41
So you got even that to deal with on top of it or that's just kind of like what you're dealing with in general, you're saying?
32:47
Yeah, it's been a really interesting year because it's kind of gone from like zero to zero.
32:52
Basically, like a year ago, I was just occasionally prompting chat GPT.
32:57
I don't even know if I was using it at work.
32:58
I mean, other than maybe kind of general research.
33:01
know that i would use it for like side projects if i would use it for work i'd be very careful to not list anything specific you know it'd be like in postgres if you have a table you know that's this many rows and you write this kind of select query like what are the performance you know i don't know like very vague yep and it went from like that to like clod is everywhere in the company you know slack and writing its own github prs i've even had we even had a period of time where Claude was opening PRs and tagging me, and they were like, Andrew, you changed this code six months ago.
33:33
You're the owner of this.

12 MINS LATER

45:45
Would you do it again? Yeah, would you do it

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