#GoodDevDigest

📚 I listened to the book "Same as Ever"

The author promised to talk about the concepts or traits which remain the same despite the human progress and change. Interesting!

The book is quite short, only 6h and easy to comprehend. I think I was expecting more from it, but for the 6h the content is good. Overall the 2/3 of the book revolves over the simple idea that there is one thing which does not change — presense of uncertainty. Thank you, author, that helps! It does not make the author less right, he is right. We shall accept uncertainty and how things which are out of control influence our life.

But there was interesting insite from the book. It's about the people who we know think different. For example, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel. We know they think different and this allows them to reach certain goals and we may like it and respect them for this. BUT, we also may think that if they are great in certain traits of the complex matter, than they are also great in the more basic stuff (family, friendship, food habit, sport, etc). But they are not! People who think different do not think different because they are like average. This differences usually applies to the rest of their personality. And it's not good or bad, but it's unfair to expect it the other way.

🎧 Podcast episode "Expectations And Limitations Of AI-Assisted Software Engineering"

It appeared that Dave Farley, the author of "Modern Software Engineering" has a podcast. And he invited Birgitta Böckeler there. I've worked with Birgitta when SHARE NOW hired ThoughtWorks to help us to incorporate big Java monolith. So it was twice interesting to hear what they think about the AI assistants.

Insight from the podcast — how Birgitta suggests to evaluate the code assistants. We shall not answer the question if they are good or bad, if they replace us or not. But answer the more simple one — do they bring some added value to your work. In my case they are, I like github copilot and feel that it brings value.

🍪Cookie

Just this week we had a Tech day with our newly formed team. The team name is Customer Core and since we are tight on budget and designers time — we don't have a proper logo. So our logo is ⚛️.

Recently I was browsing amazon for the models of the brain, like this one. I will definitely buy one for myself at some point, but that's another story. And I thought a cookie cutter in the form of the brain. I saw that it's 3D printed and thought that maybe these models are available publicly. And yes, they are, you can purchase one, print it and make brain cookies yourself.

So I did the same for the atom cookie. I purchased the model and made cookies, the team was happy and I was happy.

⬛️ That was it for today.