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The day my agents repainted my GitHub year.

My time with the agents nearly doubled, from 5 to over 9 hours a day, and my project switches went up 6.6×, in step with the commits.

×6.6my daily project switches since my agents started committing, with ×1.8 time spent with them

Latest article · October 13, 2026 · 5 min read

Tristan Bessoussa

I lead engineering teams and write about infrastructure, Symfony, serverless and AI. Here: configs, benchmarks and numbers from real projects.

0.2% → 51%AI’s share of what I read and write on X, 2022 to 2025

From Symfony to agentic coding: 15 years on X

A CV is declared. Fifteen years of likes, retweets and tweets are measured: 19,367 public traces of what held my attention, across 14 topics, from PHP to infrastructure to AI agents.

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All articles 25 articles, 2014–2026

YearTitleMeasure
2026The day my agents repainted my GitHub year. 2026 · AI · 5 min read×6.6my daily project switches since my agents started committing, with ×1.8 time spent with them
The apple tree and the basket. 2026 · AI · 10 min read13 mincalculated average block on the lightest meeting days, vs 81 min in 2025
Five sites in production for a joke, in under a day. 2026 · AI · 9 min read1h30of my time for six projects, from idea to going online
2024How I Used AI to Hack My CrossFit Waitlist Problem (and Why It Changed My View on AI Development) 2024 · AI · 4 min read20% → 100%cancelled slots secured
20215 years agoA healthy development environment in 2021: hello Docker, goodbye virtual machines 2021 · Dev tools · 7 min read
Test-driving Hidora, a Swiss PaaS 2021 · Infra · 6/7 · 5 min read2,048 msaverage response time, vs 492 ms at Scalingo
20206 years agoHow Serverless Saved Us For $2. 2020 · Infra · 6 min read2 min2,000 PDFs generated, instead of 11 h
20197 years agoHow not to be depressed when working with WordPress 2019 · PHP/Symfony · 16 min read−40%page generation time
Series · Comparing PaaS offerings
PaaS benchmark: Clever Cloud vs Scalingo vs Hidora 2019 · Infra · 7/7 · 3 min read492 msScalingo at €10.8/month
French PaaS providers are in a boat: Platform.sh lies at anchor 2019 · Infra · 5/7 · 3 min read€40for 0.8 GB of memory
French PaaS providers are in a boat: Scalingo stays afloat 2019 · Infra · 4/7 · 4 min read
French PaaS providers are in a boat: Clever Cloud rights the ship 2019 · Infra · 3/7 · 6 min read+€54/yrprice gap with Scalingo
French PaaS providers are in a boat: OVH falls overboard 2019 · Infra · 2/7 · 4 min read13 daysuntil the first support reply
OVH, Clever Cloud, Platform.sh and Scalingo are in a boat: comparing French PaaS providers 2019 · Infra · 1/7 · 2 min read4 PaaScompared
20179 years agoGetting ALPN negotiation on Debian 9 (stretch) to activate HTTP2 with nginx 2017 · Infra · 1 min read
201610 years agoSeries · An application migration strategy
Taking stock of our migration 2016 · PHP/Symfony · 3/3 · 5 min read2 yearsof migration
A closer look at continuous migration 2016 · PHP/Symfony · 2/3 · 4 min read32 / daydeployments at peak
Why we migrated our application 2016 · PHP/Symfony · 1/3 · 4 min read70%of forms on obsolete code
201511 years agoThe PR Review Watcher, save time when reviewing code 2015 · Dev tools · 2 min read
Introducing the pull request builder 2015 · Dev tools · 2 min read20 minto get a test environment per PR
201412 years agoAnsible: from provisioning to application deployment 2014 · Infra · 1 min read
The impact of the migration: performance doubled 2014 · Infra · 2 min read÷2response time, 1 s → 300–400 ms
Apache vs Nginx / php5-fpm: making an application respond 2x faster 2014 · Infra · 4 min read
MySQL vs MariaDB: making an application respond 2x faster 2014 · Infra · 4 min read
OVH IP Load Balancing: beware the multi-datacenter option 2014 · Infra · 3 min read