I am just using Go at this point and stopped caring about my own opinions.

I live in the happy place in negligence. Go software has almost zero maintenance costs and it will continue to build my programs in 10 years with zero changes to my codebase being necessary.

I probably will never touch C++ again, even though CGo is the most painful FFI/ABI implementation I've dealt with.

Just today I tried to build a project that's using bergamoth and a shitload of broken C++ dependencies and decided to not give a damn after 5 hours of trying to fix crappy code that changed for whatever reasons between c++14 and c++15, well, or the dependencies are broken, or the dependency versions are broken, or the maintainer's code never compiled in the first place... I just don't care.

My hopes were higher during the conan peak days, but now the ecosystem is just so broken even with jinja and whatever build framework the new kids are using.

I guess I just really hate the C++ ecosystem, and the lack of self reflection in there about the self inflicted pain that shouldn't be necessary in 2026.

In regards to agentic coding: I am toying around with codestral:22b right now and xiaomi's mimo models, and am building my own local dev environment which makes this kinda nice.

It's local and I like it, sometimes need to use claude still but it's getting there. But I am delegating only the gruntwork, not decisions, so I use temperature usually below 0.3. My approach is to make this sandboxed per folder I run it in and that agents are only allowed to communicate via notes or tasks, so that they are forced to use better documentation. Specific roles don't have write access to certain things, e.g. coder can't touch tests, and tester can't touch code.