Senior Engineers Spend Less Time Coding - Dev Leader Weekly 118
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss balancing time coding as a senior software engineer.... Take me to this post.
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Weekly Recap - 2025-12-05
Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!... Take me to this post.
December 06, 2025Testing out vite 8 on SPA: Vite 8 is 5x faster
Vite 8 came out this week. Great! I have a single page app (the admin app for this blog) that is built on Vite, Mantine, TypeScript, and react-router. I tried upgrading to vite@8.0.0-beta.0 to see if it's any faster. tl;dr; it's 5 times faster. From 3.8 seconds to build, down to 0.8 seconds. The app is just a one-man small side project but it uses some pretty heavy dependencies such as Mantine, @tanstack/react-query, prism-react-editor, react-router to name a few. When you run vite build, it gen... Take me to this post.
December 06, 2025AI code is like sushi
And just like sushi, the range of quality is incredibly wide. Really bad sushi tastes awful, is pungent, and, if it's poorly prepared while there's bacteria or parasites present, it might even kill you!! On the other hand, really incredible sushi is made by a master chef, takes time and energy to prepare, required years of apprenticeship to learn the necessary techniques, demands the right high quality ingredients, and can produce once in a lifetime flavors and experiences. Really bad AI code is... Take me to this post.
December 06, 2025