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Take that Thinking Time
1 day ago
The Learning Rhythm
2 days ago
The Backup Drive Habit
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Two Approaches to Blisters
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The Fear of Growth
5 days ago
Footwork and Repetition
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Making Up Answers
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Don’t Feel Guilty about Design
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Now I understand High School
1 week ago
The AI Cut and Paste Dilemma
8 hours ago
If you don’t take the time to think through a problem, to analyze what’s in front of you, to figure out your next steps. No one will. There is a time to do, and a time to think. When you know all the elements of the problem, that is definitely the time to do, but when you don’t – that’s the time to think. You can be quiet. You can be reserved. You can go into a cave. You can shut everything out. There is no harm in thinking through a problem and not responding immediately. That is where our …
1 day ago
The Learning Rhythm
Greg Thomas
When you slip into the learning rhythm, it feels like time has stopped. You’re in the zone, and nothing is impossible. Instead of it being an arduous task, it’s the direction to your future career laid out right in front of you. It’s not easy getting into the rhythm, because it takes humbling and failing – more than we care to admit – but when it works, then we’re on fire, and the rhythm goes from being here and there to being a constant part of your life that everything leaps from. Want more? Check out my book Code Your …
2 days ago
The Backup Drive Habit
Greg Thomas
Yes, I still use Backup Drives for files. Not regularly, but every now and then, I get a random thought – “Oh, I should back that up”. Setting up a new computer, I back up to the cloud, but also to a local drive… because hey… local drives have never failed, right (they have)? Someone younger than me who never used external drives probably doesn’t use them, but for my generation, going from 1.44 MB to 1 TB in your hand was power incarnate and always gave you that security blanket of – “if something goes wrong I still have …
1 week ago
The AI Cut and Paste Dilemma
When a ticket goes from no content to 1000 lines of content, here is where my mind immediately goes now. I use AI to help me troubleshoot and track down problems – no one knows it all – and that goes for you to AI! After being burned a few times, with AI usage, I have found myself now in an instant doubting mood when I see long pieces of content come my way, where I now have to remind myself – someone might have put a lot of effort into this and I should give it the time it …
1 week ago
The Era of “I think this is the problem.”
We are exiting the era of someone knowing the answer and entering the era where everyone around the room can say – “I think it’s this”. During a call, everyone can bring up their AI tool du jour, copy and paste an error message in, and come back with a “I think it is this”. It’s not the answer; there is no analysis, there is no surety in what we are trying to solve. Having more information is great, but if it’s not directed to the solution at hand, it’s just more noise. Whereas we used to have people who …
Counting Token Shock
Counting Lines of Code became… Counting Number of Unit Tests Generated became… Generating the number of class files became… Ensuring we had everything commented, which became… An unlimited number of TODOs in our code. And now we are counting Tokens of usage and surprise, surprise – we are gamifying and overusing them so that our metrics look inflated. I AM SHOCKED!!!! Yes, your team should be using AI. But if you’re measuring your team by their token consumption, it’s a lazy, easy metric. Instead, why not look at; As with development metrics of the past, the first metric identified is …