Enterprise Architect here.

This is the answer. All the way.

At my job, employees haven’t written code since the asp classic days and it was garbage back then. This meant almost all new code is written by contractors, which is often garbage. And slow, expensive garbage at that.

Now, AI can at least make better code than the contractors at a fraction of the price.

It also tightens the feedback loop between getting half-assed requirements and getting the deliverables back to those who requested them so they can say how it’s not what they asked for. That process used to take months, now it takes like a day between iterations.

I honestly don’t know where people are working where they say they have tight control of first party deliverables and clear requirements with a cogent SDLC. All companies I’ve worked for have been about 1-2k employees. Are these people working in 10k large organizations where people can afford to be an expert in only one thing and camp on it their whole career?

Also, remember those debugger skills because we’ll all need it.

Based on my fruit and coffintake, I’m living forever. Ignore the alcohol.

Yeah, I really like the view that my wife is my partner. We have a shared stake in the other’s success, but can act independently.

I think the opposite is the ideal. If using AI, write an architecture document of the code, then point an LLM at it. Be prepared to open up the debugger and troubleshoot someone else’s code.

Honestly, I’ve gotten a lot of lift from this technique since the devs at my job legit don’t know how to even use source control.

Before AI, my former boss would do this but with email instead. She’d call a 2hr meeting and no kidding spend the first 1.5hrs answering emails or editing a document, and then complain no one was getting anything done. I’d regularly stay until 7 or 8pm (starting at 8am, before my boss) just to keep up with workload.

Worst leader I’ve ever had. Sorry you’re going through something similar.

I’m on the other side now and promised I’d never look back.

Formerly steam deck, now unseated by my AYN Thor. It can play 70-80% of the games the deck can in a package that fits in your pocket.

My breville coffee maker and bratza burr grinder. It makes the best coffee and doesn’t complain.

Also, my dolphin pool cleaning robot. Vacuuming a pool manually is such a hassle. Outsourcing that to a bot is truly amazing.

Anything that buys me back my time.

Herniated L6/L7. No chair has helped me. Only things that have are

• sit/stand desk
• movement (the best position is the next position)
• dead hangs, progressed to pull ups
• deadlift, slow progression, perfect form. Teaches proper lift positioning and bracing to execute successfully.
• same for squats

Not medical advice in any way. These are just the things that have helped me immensely. If you take any lifting advice off the Internet, get a coach.

I know if my back starts to hurt it’s because I’m not doing one or all of them enough.

Playing guitar

Deadsy

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Oh man, a great hack is to microwave your garlic for about 5 seconds and the peel comes right off.