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How developers grow, adapt, learn, and keep building useful judgment.
← All writingThe Jordan-Karpathy Effect
AI amplifies the foundation you bring to it. Senior engineers get leverage because they have judgment, standards, and enough context to direct the tool.
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Stop Telling Kids to Major in Computer Science
AI writes the code now. The skill that matters is understanding the business problem. For most software careers, a business degree with a CS minor wins.
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Think about RIOTS
CRUD describes what happens to stored records. RIOTS helps developers trace how data moves and changes between those operations.
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MVP in Personal Projects
The hardest discipline in personal projects is building the smallest thing that proves your idea works, not the grand vision you have in your head.
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