Now
Updated October 2026. What I'm actually spending time on, not the highlight reel.
Go fundamentals
Finishing the boot.dev Go course — enough to write a small concurrent program (goroutines, channels, a TCP listener) without looking things up.
Strangler facade
A reverse proxy in front of a legacy JSP product, routing some paths to new services. Timeboxed to 2–3 weeks, ends with a written design critique: failure modes, capacity numbers, what I'd change.
The rule I'm working under
Hand-write in any language I can't yet review confidently (Go, Kotlin, Rust, Swift). Let agents write where I can (Java, Spring). The skill that matters isn't typing code faster than an agent — it's being able to read what one produced and say whether it's right.
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