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Can GPT5 / Claude Sonet replace me and my team ?

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Can AI Agents replace my team including myself ? Seems to be the question on everyones mind lately. Well can they really ?. Let's find out shall we ? Spoiler alert, the answer is not a simple YES or NO.  Vibe Coding Lets gets some things clarified. I'm not vibe coding here. I have strong opinions about the pitfalls of vibe coding in production systems. This is not the place to discuss that. I don't exactly know what to call this but to put things simply I'm using AI with well defined context to do this experiment.  Credits This project is based on  Ed Donner's  CrewAI project featured in  The Complete AI Engineering Course , If you are interested in learning more you should check out the  learning material  by  Ed Donner . I highly recommend them.  The Project In order to test out this hypothesis I'm gonna use  Crew AI  . The title was a catchy one, the project however has a narrower context. I'm not trying to create an AI Engineeri...

Backups & Snapshots

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What if you loose all your photos, yes every single one of your photos in your phone, laptop, usb drive. Even worse imagine loosing every single bit of your digital data. What if you had to start from a fresh laptop, mobile phone. That's a pretty close explanation of what I had to go through in 2010.  Overview  A few years ago, around 2010 to be exact I lost all my data due to a hard drive failure. I was able to recover some of it but to this day regret the incident. I was keeping all my data. on a single usb hard drive. I should have known better. Hindsight is 2020. Once bitten, twice shy, I have rotated between various complex, high maintenance solutions to the current compromise. In this article I will explain how I do this at present day.  Backups vs Snapshots First lets talk about snapshots. Having backups is good but what if you need to recover a photo you deleted 2 weeks ago. What if you wanted to recover a version of a file you changed 2 days ago. This is where sn...