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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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• How I became the control group in an AI experiment

  Posted on September 17, 2025

  At the risk of alienating almost everyone reading this blog, I wanted to report some first hand experience of interacting with AI for programming. I specifically want to talk about how I accidentally served as a control group for an experiment with an AI agent. [Read More]

• TODO TITLE

  Posted on September 8, 2025

  In the past, I used to work in a codebase that had a lot of // @TODO: comments in it. Those TODOs would rank from obvious, small improvements to calls for features that would require an entire rewrite. The TODOs always caused frustration on my end: Why did they not... [Read More]

• Unreasonable within reason

  Posted on August 29, 2025

  Over the years I have come to appreciate “unreasonable” coworkers. What a weird sentence to write, right? When it comes to programming, you are usually fairly well advised to be “reasonable.” For example, debugging is much more effective if you have a theory for why things are going wrong and... [Read More]

• Speaking with curiosity

  Posted on August 19, 2025

  I had two interactions recently that surprised me in light of how I think about this blog. [Read More]

• Does C compile faster than C++?

  Posted on August 13, 2025

  I recently found myself wondering whether it is faster to compile C than C++. On some level, the answer to this is an obvious “yes”: You can’t accidentally summon cthulhu SFINAE-thulhu in your C code, for example. [Read More]

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