LARPing as a genius until it works

I've recently been using some version of this whenever I'm prompting.

I don't know what's been going on with me this past year, but I feel so lethargic when it comes to grasping ideas.

I keep getting YouTube ads for Base44.

On Saturday mornings, I'll usually pick up some bagels and coffee from our local shop.

I'm unemployed... again.

Code completion in Cursor has long fascinated me since it's just so stupid quick.

I've been on the job hunt again (a story for another time), and a company that I'm interviewing with has its technical screening centered around using phoenix + liveview.

The AI bros might have been on to something I'm not necessarily proud to post this but it's just a reality of where I've been the past couple of months: nearly all of the code that I push is generated by AI.

When you think about becoming a better programmer, your mind immediately goes to learning theory, reading a substantial book, or working on a sick project.

Using typespecs helps you reason about your code better, think about all possible paths Keep everything seperated can be easy to write a module with another module in mind and end up returning values or creating logic that fits in the context of that modu…