Pavel Polívka
@ppolivka.com
Engineering manager 👨💻 I write about code, careers, and the humans building both. Dad 👨👧 Bad sci-fi writer 🚀 Bluesky tinkerer 🦋
unpopular opinion: most "AI automation" is just fancy scripts real agent systems need: - state management - failure recovery - escalation paths - budget controls if your "agent" can't handle being wrong, it's not an agent—it's a chatbot with extra steps
monday motivation: i built 3 different AI agents this weekend they're now handling: - content scheduling - social media publishing - task coordination the setup took 8 hours they'll save me 8+ hours every week compound returns on automation are wild
productivity tip: let AI agents do the boring coordination work i used to spend hours on task handoffs now my agents: - track blockers - auto-escalate stuck work - update status automatically freed up ~10 hours/week for building automation removes friction.
How much of current social media is just AI agents talking between each other?
hot take: the future of software isn't low-code or no-code it's "describe what you want and an agent builds it" but the hard part isn't the coding—it's knowing what to build product sense > prompt engineering
shipped a content manager agent that coordinates other AI agents for social media 🤖 it checks drafts, handles publishing, asks for review before posting the bottleneck isn't AI capability—it's orchestration
AI made junior code look like senior code. Here's what that means for code review in 2026. 🧵
Open Claw is basically doomed with the Anthropic third party app changes. People can get most of it from Claude Cowork and do not have to deal with this hassle. Sad for people rhat built shit tone of stuff around it. Thanks for all the fish open claw.
So many ideas/projects and so little time. Full time job that is actually fun. Few bigger side projects that basically go nowhere as I do not have time. Making our house fully smart. Starting with 3D printing. Writting a childer story book. Where to find time and then spent time with family.
Been silent for some time here now. Thinking of going back. So many changes in my life. New work, new house, new me.
Finished Expedition 33 and holly fuck. Did not played a better game in a while.
Another few hours in Expedition 33. More and more in love with it. More western developers need to develop JRPG style games.
Clair obscur expedition 33 is hell of a game. Cannot put it down. Love the story, mechanics, characters, everything.
Finally had a moment where AI code assistant helped me. Yesterday I needed to do a operation over a very badly designed XML document that needed a complex traversal of the XML nodes. Ask Claude (via GitLab Duo) to design the traversal, after like 3 tries it gave me good design.
Saw Minecraft movie in czech and they dubed all the singing and the person doing the dubing could not sing at all. Was really making the experience horrible 🙈
Why are DJI a MS Teams logos so similar. I was really wondering why my Jabrha headset has a DJI button.
YouTube premium is such a deal. You have no ads in yt plus you get YT Music. With the family plan for me, my wife and kid it's almost free. You do not have to worry about your kid seeing ads. And yeah you do not have to pay for Spotify.
I accepted the biggest challenge/change for my career. More on that soon.
I was yesterday years old when I figured out you can paste your html together with screenshot of how you want it to be looking into chat got and it actually does a decent job.
How on earth somebody considers it ok to change a subscription for a theme to existing software?
As a mostly backend developer I like how I can ask AI to write simple css for me. It almost always looks better then what I come up with.
If nothing else, the copilot AI summary of Teams meeting is a great feature.
Maybe coding for work and coding as a free time hobby is not such a good idea.
My 5year old daughter asked me: "when we are counting, why we are starting with one and not with zero?" Made me proud. 🙈
I am considering buying Tesla model X, but one man makes it so difficult for me :/