Robert Roskam
Robert RoskamThe glass is ....
Optimist: half full
Pessimist: half empty
Backend engineer: this is a frontend problem
Frontend engineer: I just put in the water that the API gave me
Fullstack: the glass meets the spec I was given.
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Robert RoskamSpend a day planning. Save a year of coding.
Spend a day coding. Save a year planning.
There is no science to figuring out which case you’re in.
Only art.
Robert RoskamAlways code as if the individual who will maintain your code is a very dear friend.
Robert Roskam"Those without dirty hands are wrong."
You kind of need to do a thing, to be in it, to be around it in order to understand it.
Empathy is great, and in many ways allows us to function broadly as a society.
But if you want to propose specific solutions to a problem, you need to grapple with the problem directly.
It's far too easy to fall into whiteboarding something totally non-workable.
Robert RoskamHot take: you can't learn a skill without doing the thing.
Sure, you can watch someone else demo it or you can read about it.
But unless you apply the skill yourself soon after, you do not learn it.
Robert RoskamSome great thoughts for pair programming with agents by Nick Radcliffe: https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/
Best set of quotes:
So it’s tempting to think that Claude’s knowledge is broad but shallow.
But that’s wrong.
So Claude’s knowledge is broad and deep.
But that is wrong too.
A library “contains” knowledge but knows nothing. There is a sense in which Claude might be said to “know” something.
Claude “knows” a lot of things but doesn’t really understand what it knows
Robert RoskamSoftware engineers, I got 4 books for you, but they're not the normal flavor.
1. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
2. Atomic Habits by James Clear
3. Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
4. Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
https://blog.robertroskam.com
Robert RoskamIs it just me or was black-friday-cyber-monday a bust?
I'm serious I bought a big purchase (~$800) on Cyber Monday thinking it was actually some deal, but it turns out it's the very same price today. And I suspect it was the same price before.
I'm not feeling duped. I just would have bought it much earlier and got the benefit sooner.
Robert RoskamIs there a hello world of 3D printing?
Robert RoskamI've never been to AWS re:Invent. Never wanted to go either.
Am I missing out or is it just a giant cash grab by a mega corp?