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Mini Miracle Machine
One of the best immediately current outcomes of “supercharged” AI coding is not its support of enterprise operations, which despite turning out large proportions of new code remains questionable. Of possibly superior interest is the production-ready code it can turn...
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White Paper: CoPilot Organizational Assessment
This white paper was written close to a year ago as of this posting, so some of its contents may have lost accuracy. The analysis framework itself I believe maintains relevance. Preliminary note: The viewpoints expressed in this...
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“Task Failed Successfully”
“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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“Scrappy Path”
In the world of software, you often hear about the “happy path” of a product. A “happy path” is the optimal use case, the ideal journey a user takes to accomplish a goal in a piece of software, from...
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The Human Solution to Design Process
Note: when I say designers below, this can apply to any technical+creative types, such as engineers, product designers, etc. You put five designers in a room with a big free slot of time to let them solve a challenging and...
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To Learn a New Programming Language, Start Over
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Git: Common Tasks
As a git user I am no expert. I don’t know if I’ll ever be, yet I use it every day. I’m not alone — many people recognize the critical role version control plays in development work, but it’s...
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