Three Good Links: 21 April 2025

Move Slow and Fix Things: The author argues that moving slowly doesn’t mean you can’t make quick decisions. It’s just that the execution should be deliberate. Don’t wreak havoc along the way. Because the time to fix what you might break rarely comes.

The Best Programmers I Know: The author lists some important traits of effective programmers. For example, he says, the best keep digging until they find the reason. They might not find the reason immediately, they might never find it, but they never blame external circumstances. With this attitude, they are able to make incredible progress and learn things that others fail to.

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Senior software engineers are in the perfect position to ensure success with Coding Assistants, because the very experience and accumulated know-how in software engineering and project management best practices, which only seem obsolete in the age of AI, are precisely what enable the most effective use of these tools.