Spent about a week going from too many cups a day (but cut off at 11-11:30am) to 2 cups only. Then about 2 weeks to 1 cup only.
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Tech Leads: Teach
Request to Tech Leads to teach Juniors the fundamentals now more than ever. I’ve seen a disturbing trend where Juniors and mid-level devs are using LLM’s to generate PR’s where they didn’t hand code any of it, and upon questioning, they don’t understand much of it. When I then explain things in the PR and/or in person, I realize they’re missing swaths of basics, and while exciting for me, it’s concerning they’ve gone this long without someone giving them the rundown of how this all works.
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Two Cases On Why We Should Read The Code
Two cases to read the code. I know everything is nuanced, skills vary, and the scope of what we’re building varies. I’m aware even Kent Beck recently said “TRY to automate not reviewing the code”. This is just 2 examples where reading the code is required, even today, with multiple + wonderful LLM support tooling.
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Quitting Coffee Again
About 8 years ago, I quit coffee. It was, and still is, my only caffeine intake. I’m doing it again to see if it helps my sleep issues.
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