Really scattershot opinions > I’ve also spent maybe a week more than I should have on a fairly simple feature, just from fighting with my tools and trying to f

Really scattershot opinions > I’ve also spent maybe a week more than I should have on a fairly simple feature, just from fighting with my tools and trying to figure out where to put a few sparse calls in the codebase. Automate your tool setup so that you can start from day1 (ok day 2)... > it doesn’t seem like I have all that much to do. Spend this time to read as much code as you can, including PRs from your peers. > Now I have to make meetings, ask people for information, decide that something needs to be done and tell another team to do it, etc. This is the _really_ valuable space in SEng. An army of offshorers can do programming. Software engineering is when you add people and time. Figure out how to motivate and sell people on ideas, figure out how to recruit allies in initiatives etc.