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Hard to tell, but here's my typical day... I work from home. Wake up at 8am, row for a bit on a machine, shower, make a coffee, and get to work around 8:45. At
by mstaoru 4y ago
Hard to tell, but here's my typical day... I work from home. Wake up at 8am, row for a bit on a machine, shower, make a coffee, and get to work around 8:45. At 9am we have a short daily standup call, which is a bit of a nuisance but okay. Some non-coding research or help the team till lunch. I'll take my wife and we'll walk somewhere far for lunch, around 11:45, sometimes sit down for a coffee, come back around 2pm. By this time I will already have some coding ideas crystallized in my head, so I'll code till 5pm. Go to gym, go have dinner. At this point we're usually at 12-14k steps. Come back around 8pm and work a bit more, maybe till 9:30. If I was good at splitting the task, by this time I'll usually have a PR ready. Then we go have some cocktails or just chill and watch TV. Bedtime at midnight.
So... altogether around 7-8 hours of work, of which at least 5 are coding. I enjoy that since I'm a generalist, sometimes I'll tinker with hardware, sometimes with firmware, sometimes DevOps, sometimes investigate some gnarly SQL, sometimes just write some APIs. So it rarely gets boring for me, even after more than 20 years coding professionally.
RE: AI, I tinkered with it a bit, and maybe something is wrong with my prompts, but it always gives me bullshit code that looks beautiful but is either absolutely wrong, or just fundamentally broken. I do have ChatGPT plus, Copilot and whatnot, and so far neither of them has been any help.