Month in review: December 2025

PublishedDecember 31, 2025

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I thought this was a helpfully evidence–based analysis of LLM coding. It's inspired me to try and track a little more objectively what impact using an LLM has on my own productivity. I've often thought it's unclear if the overall impact is positive or negative for me, though there are definitely some tasks which are far faster with an LLM. I don't expect to completely abandon using LLMs, but it's possible I may use them for fewer tasks or only specific tasks.

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I can't remember what struck me about this, but I'm sharing it anyway 😅

Things I haven't published

Most ideas I have for blog posts never see the light of day because I don't find the time to write them. Here's what I didn't get round to.

Claude fixing an image

This was an interesting case of Claude fixing a problem which I would have had no idea how to approach.

Sharing github copilot prompts across multiple IDEs

What keyboard shortcuts I use as a professional programmer

I'm hoping to publish this at some point, but have only just started analysing what shortcuts I use most.

Command Palette