Welcome to issue 91 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering mentoring, PostgreSQL, keeping work fresh, Llama, fake work, requirements, the AI echo chamber and so much more!
As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🙂
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Life After Coding: Becoming a Mentor by Vadim Kravcenko
- Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL by Tudor Golubenco
- The Most Powerful Law in Software by Thorsten Ball
- Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews by Karan Pratap Singh
- Learning needs to be effortful to be effective by Gianluca Segato
Work less
- Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots by Kent Beck
- Proof you can do hard things by Nat Eliason
- Software engineers hate code by Dan Cowell
- Why I Hate Frameworks by Benji Smith
- How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham
Stay current
- Llama 2
- How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide by Ethan Mollick
- Debate over ‘fake work’ and ‘lazy management’ in tech industry by Hugh Langley and Grace Kay
- The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements by Jared Toporek
- Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
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