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Every beginner developer ever ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’ป

Tutorial: โ€œNow, simply write this 3-line piece of code.โ€ Me: โ€œEasy ๐Ÿ˜Žโ€ The code: โŒ Error Me: โ€œOkayโ€ฆ let me check the tutorial.โ€ Tutorial: exactly the same code ๐Ÿ˜ญ Me: โ€œWHY DOESNโ€™T MINE WORK?! ๐Ÿ’€

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Two kinds of junior devs right now, and only one of them is actually learning

I've been watching a lot of beginners lately, and I keep seeing the same thing. Someone asks ChatGPT/Claude a question and gets an answer, after sees it works - and that's it...

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I made my coding agent explain every change to the customer. Here is the skill.

The diff is never the expensive part. The expensive part comes after: explaining to the person who asked for the change what they actually got, and discovering that "done" meant "tests pass". I spent four years as a founding engineer on a hospitality platform and then alone on a proactive assistant, and the habits that saved me the mostโ€ฆ

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  • Seven-rule "product-engineer" skillset enforces habits in coding tasks
  • Skill improves customer block quality, built features, and excluded features

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