Many programmers would admit this: our knowledge of Git tends to be pretty… superficial. “Oops, what happened? Screw that, I’ll cherry pick my commits and start again on a fresh branch”. I’ve been there. I knew the basic use cases. I even thought I was pretty experienced after a hundred or so resolved merge conflicts. But the confidence or fluency somehow wasn’t coming. It was a hunch: learned scenarios, commands from Stack Overflow or ChatGPT, trivia-like knowledge without a soli...| allvpv’s space
Two approaches to using AI I believe that AI can make you smarter. It can help you grow faster, especially when it comes to gaining new knowledge or developing new skills. It is the perfect learning companion and a great language tutor, and it’s ability to browse the web and surface relevant links far exceeds my own. Heck, I’ve even used it – albeit very modestly – to polish this draft so it’s bearable to the native speakers.| allvpv’s space
Programming languages have rapidly evolved in recent years. But in software development, the new often meets the old, and the scaffolding that OS gives for running new processes hasn’t changed much since Unix. If you need to parametrize your application at runtime by passing a few ad-hoc variables (without special files or a custom solution involving IPC or networking), you’re doomed to a pretty awkward, outdated interface:| allvpv’s space
