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The Agentic Development Loop
The value of agentic coding isn't speed. It's that it forces you to be explicit about what you'd normally leave implicit.
AI Existential Dread and Developer Ego Death
I haven't written a line of code in two weeks. The strangest part isn't the realization -- it's that I don't feel anything about it.
1,500 Lines, One Commit
I built a full custom charting system, then deleted 1,923 lines when TradingView's widget turned out to be simpler and better.
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Whoever tells you that apps or saas will die because of AI fits into one of these: they're either selling AI or they have no clue how software is built and why non-software companies or just normal people buy their software from software companies, be it off the shelf or bespoke.
— George Violaris (@atr0t0s) February 23, 2026
Featured Work
Smallwork
A full-stack PHP AI framework. Multi-provider gateway, vector search, RAG, and AI middleware built into the request pipeline.
Vio Framework
An AI-agent-first frontend framework. ~1,200 lines of TypeScript that rethinks how agents interact with UIs.
ObsiTUI
Terminal client for Obsidian with real vim modal editing and AI-powered RAG search. 301 tests.