LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger

LLMs can give you false confidence, because they can reinforce your prior beliefs. They are “eager to please”. Asking leading questions can change the results greatly. I am mindful of asking questions that are neutral.

Using the expand and contract pattern

A good overview of the expand and contract pattern. Handy to keep around to send to others, which comes up about once a month!

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

This is the first time I’ve heard “dependency cooldown” as a term. In a sense, I already implement the cooldown instinctively. I upgrade methodically and purposefully, especially when major versions are concerned.