Comment by meander_water

Great advice all round.

> Take time with learning

But this one in particular stands out. We are being constantly pushed to ship code at faster and faster rates. AI has only hastened the process.

If you want to learn anything new you have to slow it down, push back against all the forces urging you to do more, ship more, make more money.

If you're using AI tools, do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. For every piece of generated code you accept, scrutinize every line, ask clarifying questions, ask for alternate implementations, ask what the tradeoffs are.

Just be curious.

This will be slow, but that's the point.