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Heikki Hellgren

The Hardest Part of Contributing to Open Source Is Not the Code

Architecture is learnable. The mental barrier to your first PR in a CNCF project takes more work.

2d ago

The Hardest Part of Contributing to Open Source Is Not the Code

2d ago

The AI Productivity Numbers Are Contradicting Each Other.

Self-reported gains look nothing like controlled study results. The gap is not a rounding error.

3d ago

The AI Productivity Numbers Are Contradicting Each Other.

3d ago

Backstage Does Not Need More Plugins. It Needs Better Gardens.

A healthy ecosystem is not measured by how many plugins exist. It is measured by how many survive real production use.

4d ago

Backstage Does Not Need More Plugins. It Needs Better Gardens.

4d ago

Amazon Made Senior Engineers Sign Off on AI Code. That Is Not a Step Backward.

Every think piece called it regression. I think those think pieces missed the point.

5d ago

Amazon Made Senior Engineers Sign Off on AI Code. That Is Not a Step Backward.

5d ago

Backstage Meets AI: The MCP Integration

How Model Context Protocol turns your developer portal into an AI-native platform

6d ago

Backstage Meets AI: The MCP Integration

6d ago

TypeScript 6 Is Mostly a tsconfig Upgrade.

The new syntax is not the main story. The real upgrade work is cleaning up the configuration you forgot you were relying on.

Mar 22

TypeScript 6 Is Mostly a tsconfig Upgrade.

Mar 22

uv Has No Neutral Home. That Worries Me More Than OpenAI.

The acquisition isn’t the problem. The governance model is.

Mar 20

uv Has No Neutral Home. That Worries Me More Than OpenAI.

Mar 20

My GitHub Workflow Fixes Ten Random Files Every Night. It Keeps Finding Real Bugs.

It picks a file, gathers the code around it, asks OpenAI for a patch, opens a PR, and then another AI reviews the result.

Mar 20

My GitHub Workflow Fixes Ten Random Files Every Night. It Keeps Finding Real Bugs.

Mar 20

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Senior Engineers Are Getting 5x More Value From AI Tools

AI coding tools are not levelling the playing field. They might be widening it.

Mar 19

Senior Engineers Are Getting 5x More Value From AI Tools

Mar 19

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AI Made My Team Write 21% More Code. The Review Queue Doubled.

The productivity gains are real. So is the bottleneck we created by not thinking about what comes after the code is written.

Mar 18

AI Made My Team Write 21% More Code. The Review Queue Doubled.

Mar 18

Heikki Hellgren

Heikki Hellgren

Father of two, husband, and Lead Developer @ OP Financial Group. I write about things I like and things I don’t. More info @ https://heikkihellgren.dev

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