Thank-you. Steve Yegge expands on this with Done, and Gets Things Smart¹, and recently heaped praise on Cody, a chatbot that promises to elucidate and improve d

Thank-you. Steve Yegge expands on this with Done, and Gets Things Smart¹, and recently heaped praise on Cody, a chatbot that promises to elucidate and improve developer productivity². A lot of the attributes listed would be nice to get automatically through tooling, but it looks like most of these take conscious reflection, persistence, and deliberate practice. And to do that, in the usual day-to-day, I think is pretty unlikely in some contexts: we only get a certain number of hours in the day. Sometimes just less than a handful of PRs. That gets to okay, maybe we need outside projects, self-accelerated, to go through the wash-rinse-repeat cycle enough times to gain experience in the whole app lifecycle (including marketing, traction, and decommission). It may also be a fair bit of luck to even be able to exercise these qualities--much less be exposed to or be mentored by folks like these. ¹ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things... (2008) ² All you need is Cody - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519821 - 2 days ago (1 comment)