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This is David Wetterau's blog. I live in New York City and work as a Software Engineer at Airtable. In my time at Airtable, I've worked on new user-facing product features, new product verticals, and on all-sorts-of AI things. For many years, I worked at Dropbox primarily on the distributed systems that store and sync files and folders for millions of users.

Posts

  • Jun 13, 2025

    How I use AI coding tools in 2025

    You have probably heard of AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex or their open-source counterparts (e.g. Cline, Zed). You may have even been encouraged to try to use these tools at work and have licenses procured and ready for you to take advantage of.

  • May 15, 2025

    Building an AI personal assistant with no code

    I read Geoffrey Litt’s blog post about an AI assistant made of just a SQLite table and some cron jobs and immediately wanted something like it for myself.

  • May 4, 2025

    Digitizing my handwritten journal entries

    I have journaled every day since April 15th, 2018. Each of these entries is one full page of a Large Moleskin “Classic Notebook”. With my handwriting size, this comes out to around 300 words that I write every day, by hand. In this post, I’ll explain the process that I’ve started to use to covert these handwritten entries into digitized text.

  • Jan 28, 2025

    Good code review tips

    This is the third post in a series about code reviews. See the previous post to read about some ideas for who is responsible for what throughout the code review process. This post is a collection of practices that I’ve found and followed over the years as I’ve performed literally thousands of code reviews for my teammates.

  • Oct 26, 2024

    Who fixes the bug?

    This is the second post in a series about code reviews. Check out the first one to hear about why I think code reviews are so valuable to do. In this post, I want to explore the question of who ultimately is responsible for fixing the bugs and issues that a code review misses. We’ll start with two competing philosophies I’ve encountered on the question, and we’ll end with a healthy blend of both that I’ve found to be most productive.