🧬Rewriting cBioPortal's Backend in Go with AI Agents: Prototype and Prompt Analysis
A lot of code is being rewritten by AI agents this year. GitHub ported the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript to about 800,000 lines of Rust in a few months, mostly with Copilot itself (write-up).…
Read moreAnyone Can Build cBioPortal Features ✨
AI has commoditized software development. I think anybody can now build a cBioPortal feature. If you’re an analyst familiar with Python and R, it’s definitely within reach. But even if you have no co…
Read moreMy Current Coding Setup: Async Software Engineering
I’ve been evolving my coding workflow to more async agentic coding: checking in on how the agents are doing on specific tasks and guiding them when necessary. It’s very similar to how one would manag…
Read moreHow Researchers Use cBioPortal - An AI-Powered Analysis
Measuring research software impact is hard. Software often gets mentioned without formal citation, or used programmatically without any mention at all. These challenges have been explored by colleagu…
Read moreThoughts on AI-Assisted Coding
Been using AI-assisted coding across a bunch of software projects, from quick prototypes to production work. Seeing a few recurring themes: 🚀 Amazing for greenfield and prototyping They speed up earl…
Read moreGSoC Mentor Summit 2019 ☀️
Just got to the airport in Munich after a successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit. This is a yearly event where all open source organizations that participated in GSoC come together. Th…
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