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yeah the people who reach for tools/automation before doing it themself at least 3-10 times drive me crazy.

I think uncle bob or martin fowler said "don't buy a JIRA until you've done it with post-its for 3 months and you know exactly what workflow is best for your team"




I am starting to call that Harry Potter AI prompting.

Coding with English (prompting) is often most useful where existing ways of coding (an excel formula) can’t touch.

Using llms to evaluate things like an excel formulas instead of using excel doesn’t feel in the spirit of using this ai’s power.




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