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A software developer and Ruby committer reflects on their writing journey through 2025, including maintaining Ruby's annotated changelog for version 4.0 and translating Ukrainian poetry. They discuss why consistent blogging has been challenging while serving in the Ukrainian military, their struggle to find the right audience for deep technical content about language evolution, and concerns about how AI/LLMs are transforming software development from craft to industrialized production. Despite uncertainty about relevance in an AI-dominated future, they plan to continue writing about code as thoughtful composition, focusing on pragmatic testing approaches rather than broad philosophical topics.

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