treeface9000

I have no shame mentioning my use of AI. It's a tool to get things done. Would you feel the same 10 years ago if you leveraged your IDE's auto-complete, generate getter/setter, create/refactor method, etc. functionality. Probably not. As long as you conceptually understand the domain, architecture and feature set, you're good.

If you are generating a bunch of slop and don't bother to review, guide or understand what's going on... then there might be a problem. But honestly, that's speaking for today. Down the line, who knows?

Software development as a whole might become more of a product role. Can you gather feedback and requirements and put them into clear understandable terms for AI to implement. And even then, that'll be abstracted too. I'm already leveraging AI to propose new features and to document current features.

It's an exciting time. Don't feel bad about leveraging the right tool for the job unless you are misusing it without bothering to gain experience and learn.

If they answer yes to any of the following:

- Have you ever had to work on the weekend or well beyond 5pm outside of your own personal interest/initiative?

- Are we required to be on-call

If there's any hint of "nah, we don't really write tests because we just need to ship stuff, y'know"

For me, it's much harder to visualize with my eyes closed (not impossible, just not as easy)... when I close my eyes, it's mostly black with some kind of overlay of what I was last looking at -- like burn-in on a screen.

But with my eyes open I can imagine up the elephants or anything else just as detailed as those that I saw in person (either via recall of what I have seen or imagining up something new). I've never given any thought to this... but now trying to explain that I can see something with my eyes open while still seeing whatever I am looking at at the same time sounds really odd. I wonder if the visual stimulation and recall are somehow linked, or maybe I just need to practice with my eyes closed.

Pros: No commute, no micro-management, so much free time to spend on hobbies or with family. Meetings tend to be more efficient since no-one wants to sit pointlessly on Zoom and those that go off on tangents are quickly shut down.

Cons: uhhhh... drawing a blank here. Maybe socializing with co-workers could be a thing that some people might miss?

Paywalled... but thanks doc! who could have guessed that a drug with anxiety as a commonly known side effect is not good for treating anxiety.