I’m publishing these lines on my flight from Doha to Melbourne at an altitude of 30,000 feet 🤯
With a flight duration of 13 hours and flying across 7 time zones, I already had the absolute certainty of messing up my internal body clock for the next few days.
So I thought to myself: might as well make matters worse with some coding instead of trying to find a comfortable upright sleeping position (a hopeless endeavor).
But I was also a bit nervous about coding on the plane, seeing that my development workflow has become so utterly dependent on coding agents.
I could already see it play out in my head. Tedious code edits by hand followed by tedious debugging just to find some inverted condition I had missed, before giving up, completely exhausted, without having achieved anything meaningful.
What joy to find out Qatar Airways now offers complementary Starlink Wi-Fi on select flights and my flight was one of them!
We are somewhere above the Indian Ocean and as I’m jotting down these lines, my agents are happily buzzing away in the background, one building a new feature, the other continuing a bigger refactoring effort. Both tasks that would have taken me weeks of focused effort to accomplish on my own.
A pretty wild experience!
On the flip side, I guess this also means that even the last refuge from always-on connectedness in the modern world is slowly fading away. And if I had been mindlessly scrolling Instagram for the last few hours, I’d probably be sadder about it.
But as I hit publish to bring this blog post live, I have a grin on my face, shaking my head in disbelief about the times we live in.