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wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Android Studio’s Gemma 4 support matters because local coding agents change the trust model for mobile teams.
Programming, Software Engineer
C# 14’s field keyword reduces boilerplate in validation-heavy properties without turning ordinary property code into magic.
Programming, Software Engineer
C# 14 extension members can reduce helper-class noise, but overuse will make APIs harder to understand.
Programming, Software
.NET 10 matters because it is an LTS release, not only because it brings C# 14 and another round of platform features.
AI, Software Engineer
Coding agents need bounded tasks, tests, and review because out-of-scope actions are exactly the kind of thing a lead developer has to catch.
AI, Software Engineer
Claude Code routines are interesting because they move coding agents toward scheduled, event-driven, reviewable work.
AI, Software Engineer
GitHub Copilot’s coding agent is useful, but I would want explicit workflow rules around permissions, networking, and review before giving it real access.
AI, Software Engineer
Codex on mobile is less about writing code on a phone and more about supervising background engineering work away from the desk.