Dan Patrascu

After two months of testing and careful consideration I decided to stop posting on X. On Codewrinkles Pulse I micro blog from the trenches of building two products and using AI assisted engineering. If anyone wants, join me there: codewrinkles.com/register

I'd go one step further in this analogy saying that this is precisely the same reason why spending days in flight simulators doesn't make you a real pilot, even though it might create that appearance.

@dustedcodes I'd go one step further in this analogy saying that this is precisely the same reason why spending days in flight simulators doesn't make you a real pilot, even though it might create that appearance.

The way I see AI coding right now is like autopilot in an airplane, an absolute miracle and game-changer for real pilots, but certain death for everyone else.

Regarding AI assisted engineering I think the prevailing tooling / norm witll be CLI-based. IDE based agents are philosophically an extension our fingers not of our brain. Also, I think there's a huge risk that all the IDE based products are forks of the same IDE

Some predictions for #dotnet 1. Blazor will eventually become the Win Forms of web UIs 2. Same with MAUI for multi-platform UIs It's not because they are bad, but because in an AI agentic world JS based frameworks will definitely becomee the norm. Same goes for native UIs

Codewrinkles Nova in action: the difference between Queue<T>, ConcurrentQueue<T> , Channel<T> and when to use each in #Dotnet

Calling an LLM API and building a chat interface is easy. Turning this into a meaningful experience is hard. "AI as a Judge" might help! 1️⃣ Self-Evaluation 2️⃣ Reference Comparison 3️⃣ Pairwise Comparison 4️⃣ Feedback Loop

@FlorinPop17 Yesterday I went out for a 10k and it was the most horrible run of the year! Probably mostly because of food and being way more lazy than usual.

Tbh I’m looking forward to the end of this holiday season. Too much food 😬 Wanna get back on track and start working on my 2026 goals!

One of the main challenges with AI-assisted engineering is that new tools, MCPs and other related stuff are released 10x faster than JS framewroks used to ship. That creates a lot of noise and not every tool and MCP adds valuee to your existing workflows.

Now it's time to go for a run!

Back to work on my main project after a week of a break. I don't remember exactly where I left of. My first prompt to Claude Code was to analyze the last 10 commits and cross-reference them against the planning documention. I think it did a fairly good job.

@TheCodeMan__ Good luck!

Almost a year ago, I started my YouTube channel. To be honest, I wasn’t consistent. I published only 13 videos. Other things had higher priority at the time - work, projects, and content on other platforms. The result? 👉 Around 3,000 subscribers. But what matters more than the number of videos is this: 📊 Views, engagement, and messages clearly show that this content resonates. So I’m making a clear decision: 🎯 YouTube will be my main focus in 2026 🎯 My goal by the end of 2026: 20,000 subscribers No hype. No excuses. Just consistency and quality. To make it easy, I’m sharing all 13 videos I’ve published so far 👇 If you’re into .NET, backend architecture, performance, and real-world engineering problems, feel free to check it out and subscribe: @thecodeman_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@thecodeman_ Videos so far: 1. Stop Letting AI Guess Your Postgres Queries: youtube.com/watch?v=WfXR6O… 2. Dapper Is Fast… Until It Isn’t. Meet the Fix: youtu.be/tSCxjKTEhao?si… 3. Dynamic LINQ in EF Core - Filter and Sort Without Recompiling: youtube.com/watch?v=pPjv_C… 4. How to improve Bulk Operations Performance in Entity Framework: youtu.be/_C0Sz5rB_TU?si… 5. Top Commercial .NET PDF Libraries Compared - IronPDF, Aspose & Syncfusion: youtu.be/MbojT5jzQmI?si… 6. MediatR Pipeline Behavior in .NET - For Beginners: youtu.be/km4W27ggQzY?si… 7. Start with AI in .NET from HERE - Semantic Search: youtu.be/Y9qJSIF0ZFs?si… 8. All About Caching in .NET – A Beginner’s Guide!: youtube.com/watch?v=PpKEcb… 9. How to implement CQRS without MediatR in .NET: youtu.be/46DQDu0TJJU?si… 10. CORS Policy in .NET - Simplified: youtu.be/OOhRCiqpHXA?si… 11. Write Cleaner Code with Guard Clauses in .NET: youtu.be/jQxK02IdI4A?si… 12. Decorator Pattern in .NET: Add Caching, Logging, and More with Ease: youtu.be/y5QoeiyywiA?si… Thanks to everyone who’s already supporting the channel. Don't forget to join #dotnet close community where I'm giving source code from all videos and much more for free: skool.com/thecodeman 2026 is where this gets serious 🚀

Discussions here get more and more philosophical. I like it.

We have a good nice discuson here. Feel free to join! codewrinkles.com/pulse/46c13593…

Agree. I think overall as a community #dotnet is still at Junior level with no promotion to Mid in sight. It's not the creator's fault, though. They just create what people consume.

For a successful career in tech in 2026 and beyond, focus on 5 dimensions of growth instead of one.

Today I got 2 more users to alpha test Codewrinkles Nova. And in total I have 56 users on the Codewrinkles platform active during the past 30 days. Small wins!

I got bored and in a matter of 40 minutes I have implemented and shipped a new feature. ICYMI, Nova is the friendliest AI mentor for tech people. It learns and adapts to you after every conversation. There are still a few spots to alpha test it: codewrinkles.com/alpha/apply

No-brainer. Bye, ChatGPT

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