Wynand Pieters

Wynand Pieters @wynandpieters

About: Pragmatic Hacker, Tech Geek, Book Lover, Content Creator, Coffee Junkie

Location:
Grabouw, WC, South Africa
Joined:
Jun 30, 2022

Wynand Pieters
articles - 17 total

Tools I'm Using in 2025 (not that anyone asked)

Introduction I keep saying my next post won't be about AI, and then inevitably, I post...

Learn More 3 2Jun 3

AI Tools: Are We Replacing Skills or Enhancing Them? (and at what cost)

The Promise vs. Reality of AI in Tech I'm genuinely excited about recent AI advancements....

Learn More 13 15Feb 27

My two favorite AI tools (that I don't see enough people talking about)

Over a year ago a wrote a post about how I felt that, even though ChatGPT was making me more...

Learn More 4 1Oct 14 '24

Why You're NOT an Engineer (also Why It [Probably] Doesn't Matter)

Trigger warning: this is a bit of a rant. Also, it contains opinions. Specifically mine. If you are...

Learn More 3 2Sep 17 '24

Be water, my friend (my tao of software development)

Intro I don't know why this has been on my mind the last few weeks, but guess that means I...

Learn More 2 2Jun 10 '24

What I learned from making my first game (and how my approach changed for the second one)

TL;DR That's pretty much it. Entire post summed up right there 👆 ...

Learn More 1 0Feb 5 '24

I am a Single Monitor Developer (but I am very particular about that monitor)

LOLWUT. Random. Yes. Kinda. So here's the thing; I recently watched a reaction video by...

Learn More 35 36Nov 23 '23

I miss being a code monkey (but guiding the troop has its own charm)

Clarity for the purpose of this post 😏 code monkey, n. a computer programmer who is not involved...

Learn More 25 4Aug 2 '23

ChatGPT has made me more productive (but at what cost?)

Right, so it's been a minute since I last posted something. Like many other companies this last...

Learn More 33 15Jul 14 '23

The Quest for the Holy Coding Grail (are LLMs the first step in replacing programming languages?)

Introduction So very many years back when I was but a fledgling coder, armed with BASIC...

Learn More 3 2Jun 2 '23

How I Would Learn To Code (If I Could Start Over)

Ah, another "trend" I've seen online in the last year. I wonder which AI recommendation tool...

Learn More 5 2May 15 '23

My favourite Bash feature

Just a quick one here, but I used this a lot today and realised after chatting to some other devs...

Learn More 1 2May 4 '23

No, Remote Work is not Done Yet

Today again, I was triggered. So here is a hastily written post about my thoughts. sigh...

Learn More 10 1Apr 18 '23

Why AI, No Code & Low Code WON'T Replace Junior and Mid-Level Devs (Yet)

I originally started writing this post at the end of 2022 but never finished it. Originally titled...

Learn More 5 0Mar 17 '23

I asked ChatGPT to write a blog post about...

... why developers should focus more on code than how much they make. Been meaning to do this myself...

Learn More 4 0Jan 17 '23

How I Approach Intentional Learning

A while back I posted my first blog post, and the key take-away it seems people had from that was...

Learn More 4 0Nov 25 '22

Biggest Impacts on my Career

Intro I see a lot of videos and blogs these days about "how I would learn to code if I...

Learn More 5 0Nov 11 '22