Coding is becoming a chore

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Every year, I find myself more amazed by how coding is becoming a chore,  in the last 2-3 months we saw a very radical shift, from "Yes but AI is not safe/will never do XYZ"  to "I rebuilt via Codex an application in 24h, of something that i developed in 6 months during pre-LLM era"

I think are rapidly approaching a reality where the technicalities of a language such as the semicolons, the boilerplate, the specific API signatures matter far less than the design of the system and the intent of the architect.

The barrier to entry is falling, but the requirement for high-level system design is higher than ever, to validate this hypotesis i tried to build from scratch a small "agent" that acts as a translation layer between me an Claude (or any LLM agent)

Given that this isn’t my first time into Telegram bots i decided now to test it with Claude Code

Why an Agent in my Pocket?

The goal was simple: I wanted to be able to manage my environment and codebase from my phone without the friction of a workstation, nut instead of just typing commands, I wanted a collaborator.

If i have an idea at while i am doing grocieries i do not need to write it to Notion, i can just send an audio message to my bot and it will start providing an MVP 

If i have a problem (given the safety measures) you can grant access to a read-only ssh  shell to search the logs and tell you where the problem could be, without spending 

 


Trash bot allows me to:

  • Talk to my CLI: I can send text, photos of errors, or even voice notes.

  • Automated Transcription: Voice messages are transcribed via Whisper and passed to Claude as intent.

  • Human-in-the-Loop Execution: Claude proposes a shell command (e.g., a Git fix or a container restart), and I simply tap Approve or Deny

  • GitLab Integration: It handles OAuth login and uses SSH keys to interact directly with codebases.

Design Over Technicality

The most "meta" part of this project? I coded the majority of this bot using Claude Code itself.

I spent less time worrying about the Go syntax and more time thinking about the Architecture and the User Experience

When the "writing" of the code becomes automated, the "design" becomes the primary job of the engineer, which i think that at the end of the day in a few years this will be the strong shift that most of us will need to do

⚠️ A Word of Caution

This bot was built by an agent, for an agent. If you decide to deploy it, remember: do not paste dangerous or non-sanitized data into it unless you are fully aware of the permissions you've granted it

Reference

The project is open-source and ready for exploration. If you’re interested in how agentic workflows are changing the way we interact with our infrastructure, take a look:

- https://github.com/fnzv/trash

 

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