Maxence Maireaux

A widely shared article predicts AI will wipe out the "middle class" of software engineering. The diagnosis is right. The conclusion resurrects a myth we spent a decade dismantling — and that's where it gets dangerous.

How we deployed a team of AI agents directly in Slack at Formance — with NixOS for reproducibility, Hermes Agents for orchestration, and Silicon Valley characters to bring them to life.

How I stopped winging it with AI and built a real process where Claude Code and Codex challenge each other before I look at a single line.

Too many engineers jump straight into the code when something breaks. The right approach? Start from the outside — traces, logs, metrics — and work your way methodically toward the core of the system.

It's always the same: when a provider runs into trouble, customers of the competitors troll instead of sending support. It's time we talked about it.