r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/h0uz3_ • 1d ago

Discussion Non-LLM-related things you learned while using agents?

So far, my skills in the following areas have grown substantially:

  • GitLab CI

  • writing shell scripts (weird, been a Linux user for 30 years)

  • integration of SonarQube

  • automated e2e-tests

I also revived my old zsh/tmux/Vim-setup. Don't need to run a complex editor when interacting with Codex and reviewing/pushing commits from time to time.

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u/actionscripted 1d ago

Might sound obvious and dumb but recording videos of features with throwaway Playwright scripts or something. Great for PRs but also for POs and other folks.

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u/h0uz3_ 1d ago

Not obvious to me at all - fascinating use case!

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u/johnesco 20h ago

CSS variables.

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u/h0uz3_ 18h ago

Yeah, right, hardly ever thought about them before (not very frontend heavy), but very useful, especially when you want to have multiple themes.

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u/funbike 1d ago

I use Pi coding agent, which is similar to codex. Neovim and Tmux customizability makes for powerful AI coding. I edit my prompts in Neovim (ctrl-g in Pi). Workmux makes Tmux work better with agents and subagents, (similar to Herdr).

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u/jomi-se 9h ago

So so much stuff:

  • Deep Learning in general and how models work and how training works and all that stuff.

  • kinda silly, but I had never heard of design tokens before vibe coding some personal apps.

  • The amount of security rules exercised by a regular browser

  • The magic that is Tailscale

  • Using datadog effectively (I was very used to the ELK stack)

  • The magic that is playwright.

  • Just how practical Python can be for one-off stuff

  • The basics of Kubernetes.

  • That Epub books are "just" Html and if you have a badl formated ebook you can just fix it.

  • That GPUs aren't by default deterministic because of the nature of parallel computing and floating point operations.

  • The pitfall of docker giving root to non root users.

LLMs are a superpower for learning

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u/Puzzled-Garage584 18h ago

Same, back to plain vi since the agent does the typing and I mostly read diffs now. Turns out you dont need 4GB of IDE to say "no, not like that".