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The tail wagging the dog refers to a situation where small or unimportant things are controlling the larger or more important things. A common reason this occurs in software engineering is when you get too absorbed in solving some low level problem that you forgot the whole reason you were writing the code in the first place. LLMs are particularly susceptible to this problem. The problem is that in the most common chat modality, everything LLM does is put into the context. While the LLM has some capability of understanding what is more or less important, if you put tons of irrelevant things in the context, it will become harder and harder for it to remember what it should be doing. Careful prompting at the beginning can help, as is good context hygiene. Clau...
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Real-world ways I use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up .NET development without sacrificing quality or my job.
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Recently, wholesome human from the internet Josh Goldberg interviewed me for the Software Engineering Daily podcast. We talked about Polypane, the web development landscape, and how I got into web development. Listen to the Podcast: Visit Software Engineering Daily for the show notes and transcript. Thanks Joel for asking me to be on the podcast, [...]
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