Jascha Beste
Software engineer (TimescaleDB) posting about AI coding agents, enforceable/testable architecture (e.g., ArchUnit), and quality‑driven engineering practices.
Rusty Robot Coding Vibe
I love that clanker for LLMs and coding agents is catching on. I always imagine some old rusty robot hacking away on one of those beige gray keyboards in the darkness now.
Timescale Beats Clickhouse‑Postgres Combo for Simplicity
Clickhouse is trying to push postgres + clickhouse as the ultimate analytics DB stack. But tbh adding an eventually consistent database to your stack that you needed to sync too is anything but trivial. Love the product but I'd just use...
Automate PR Demo Deployments to Save Development Time
Thinking about setting up automatic demo deployments for PRs on my side project Kviklet. I do review all code that Claude Code produces and also click through the main flows manually locally. But it's always a fetch branch, restart stuff, potentially...
LLM Coding Tools Evolve Rapidly, Future Still Uncertain
In 2023 I mostly used Copilot and ChatGPT to code In 2024 Sonnet 3.5 came out and became my daily driver. I tried a few things like Windsurf and Cursor but nothing had as big of an impact as the model...
Use ArchUnit to Enforce Architecture for AI Agents
Interesting additional thought about this: I use archunit https://www.archunit.org/ to force Claude to follow some patterns (never access the DB from the service layer for example, never return database package entities from the controller). I wonder if we should have more...