Agency must stay with humans: AI velocity risks outpacing programmers' understanding

TL;DR: As AI evolves from writing syntax to autonomous planning, the sheer quantity of generated code is outpacing our ability to comprehend it. We are moving from creators to curators, risking a future where human agency is sacrificed for speed.

How Nx "pulled the rug" on us, a potential solution and lessons learned

TL;DR: Nx deprecated custom task runners. I built portable-nx-cache, a MIT licensed drop-in Go binary that provides remote caching via your CI’s filesystem cache.

One of my responsibilities at my current job is maintaining a decently-sized monorepo housing hundreds of Node.js libraries and applications. For a repository of this size, it’s handy to have a set of build tools that support, among other things, remote caching and remote execution. This repository has been running on Nx for more than 5 years now.