4 ms·
I just point people to the description. no need to type things twice.
by skydhash 11mo ago
I just point people to the description. no need to type things twice.
- lanstin 11mo agoSadly, when communicating with people, important things have to be repeated over and over. Maybe less so with highly trained and experienced people on something that their training and experience make the statement plausible, but if the thing is at all surprising or diverges from common experience, I've found a need to bang it out via multiple communication channels.
- simonw 11mo agoI learned this lesson as an engineering manager / tech lead. I got frustrated at how often I found myself having the exact same conversation with different people... until I relapsed that communicating the same core information to different people was a big chunk of the job!
- wiml 11mo ago"I think I covered that in the (PR text | comment two lines up | commit message), did you have an issue I didn't address there?" Maybe that's the AI agent I would actually use, auto-fill those responses...