Everyone who has been doing anything with prompting LLMs already knows the drill: “You are an expert in social mediamarketing, create a plan for…”, “You are a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience in Java, review this code..”In LLMs these are called “Personas” or “Role-Prompting”. The folklore says that this “make believe” tactic […]
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Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Hashtags: #DeveloperExperience #DevEx #Productivity #SoftwareDevelopment #TechLeadership Introduction Ever had one of those days where everything’s actively working against you? You’re trying to integrate with some internal API, but the docs are either from 2019 or don’t exist at all. You waste half your day digging through Slack threads and Stack
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This is a curated and opinionated list of thoughts, behaviors, and conclusions about the software development process as a whole. Your mileage may vary, but this list was meticulously crafted based on systematic observation, testing, successes, failures, and retries across different teams, companies, and countries. 1. Having any standard is much better than having no
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