You must be able to: Manage expectations. Deliver bad news. Assume responsibility and blame. Serve the people on your team. You serve people by: Offering a clear vision of where you are going together. Clearing paths they will walk on. Being available. Being kind. Learning to listen.…
(Addressed to myself. I look forward to eating crow over most of this.) To use LLMs effectively as a programmer, You still need to know what to tell them. Be explicit. Especially with success/failure conditions. Especially when laying out a brand new project or module. You need to check all…
I have spent a lot of time trying to kill a tube of toothpaste and am now convinced that the last 10% of the tube hosts 90% of its payload. The Pareto Principle in action, in defiance of physical laws.
What I say each time I engage with the cornucopia of paste: