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Recommendations for AI use in software development [Article]:
However, participant feedback indicates that developers actively iterated with the tools to achieve that quality, signaling that the technology is best used to augment developers rather than replace them. Ultimately, to maintain code quality, developers need to understand the attributes that make up quality code and prompt the tool for the right outputs.
Unleashing Developer Productivity With Generative AI [Begum Karaci Deniz, Martin Harrysson, Alharith Hussin, and Shivam Srivastava, McKinsey]
Habits expert James Clear and organizational psychologist Adam Grant with a discussion on prioritizing processes over results [Podcast]:
I think that [stories about results in the news being more common than stories about processes] causes us to overvalue the results a little bit and undervalue the process. We get so results-oriented because it is all that we see. Consistency is what drives progress and drives results. Intensity makes a good story, but it is almost always the case that you would rather have the foundation, the volume of work, the capacity to do the work, the habits, rather than focusing too much on the outcome.
Building Atomic Habits With James Clear [Adam Grant, Re: Thinking]
If you ever feel like time is flying by, what you can do to “slow” it down [Video]:
Famed Neuroscientist On How To Stretch Time | David Eagleman [Tim Ferriss]
Andrew T. Daniel 