Marcin Bunsch

"It's over", "X just changed Y forever", "X just killed Y", "This Changes Everything"

All over twitter, youtube, everything.

The fight for our attention has turned into a scream fest.

You know what I miss? Weekly periodicals with opinion pieces. You know, the ones you would read with your Sunday morning coffee. That time where you could stop, read and reflect. Not be in a constant catch-up game that you can never win. Sure, the editors were the taste-makers, but you could choose whose taste you liked.

We're being told to stop writing code. Hand the ticket to an agent, read the diff, merge, move on. And mostly it works. The code compiles, the tests pass, the feature ships.

But if you never write code by hand again, how long until you forget what good code even looks like?

Everyone is showing off and grifting with AI right now. Fake influencers, fake models, fake voices, fake everything. The numbers look great. People are making real money.

Good. Let them.

Because this is going to break something much bigger than it builds.

With the endlessly accelerating growth of AI tools comes a problem of using AI without understanding the problem. I recently read this article by Namanyay in which he does a good job conveying the problem of newer developers jumping over learning opportunities to get to the solution.

It's a huge temptation to move fast and get to the answer, and we all do this from time to time, but it's specifically bad when you should be grinding on the fundamentals to build the foundation of your understanding. I think that Namanyay points it out well in his blog post.

There is another layer to it though, one that I like to refer as the Kobayashi Maru Moment. I believe each person should experience it in their professional career to get better. It's where you fail so hard, your ego gets pummeled into the ground. You get into a no-win situation, you have to concede defeat and deal with the consequences.

Code of Delta is a document I wrote for the team I was heading at Synthesis. It laid down the ground rules and is a summarization of my professional philosophy. I realized I never published it, so here it is.

Welcome to Delta.

If you're here, it means you are either thinking of joining Delta or you've already joined and want to know who we are.

In physics, ∆ is used as a symbol for change. Which is what we are - we are the driving force of change. We make shit happen.

Our motto is „Find a way or make one". There is nothing that can stop us, because we do not give up. We are smart and capable, when faced with an obstacle, we find or make a way to remove it.

I want to be clear - the goal of Team Delta is to be the best. We will work hard, we will work smart and we will work well. I will put pressure on you and I will expect much. At the same time, I will make sure you have anything you need to succeed.

This document will lay the ground rules so that you know what to expect and what is expected of you.