Wednesday Wisdom

Does it? Because let's be honest, most code reviews are terrible. Also, what about AI generated code? Warning: This episode contains more questions than answers!

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/does-code-review-still-matter

This week: An article confirming the Law of the Conservation of Misery. Rejoice!

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/ten-things-not-to-worry-about-regarding

It’s like morphine, not overly dangerous when used sparingly and in small doses by experts…

Think big, but execute small...

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/big-machine-people

This week’s Wednesday Wisdom features a competition of human against bot. I took the question of how to become a better engineer, wrote an article about it, but also asked ⁠Midweek Muse⁠ (a ChatGPT trained on Wednesday Wisdom content) to write an article about it. I am posting both of these articles and you choose which one you like best. This is the article written by the bot.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-better-engineer-bot

This week’s Wednesday Wisdom features a competition of human against bot. I took the question of how to become a better engineer, wrote an article about it, but also asked Midweek Muse (a ChatGPT trained on Wednesday Wisdom content) to write an article about it. I am posting both of these articles and you choose which one you like best. This is the article written by the human.

I finally learned to enjoy being nobody…

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/coming-to-terms-with-my-unimportance

Do you have one?

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/exit-plan

It has come to this: A standard response to the many messages I get that seek to sell something to me, offer me a job, use me as an introduction to sell something to OpenAI, or get a referral for a position at OpenAI.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/standard-response

Can you afford to be so efficient that you cannot innovate anymore?

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-efficiency