James Phoenix
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411 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Um but I I basically think, yeah, the primitives are the main thing that you should be focusing on.
So for example, I didn't know a bit of a for loop inside of Terraform.
I said, explain this, break it down for me, and then I kind of I kind of understood it.
So that to me is the is the usefulness of this stuff.
Yeah, having said that, you can do things like you can say, I know uh I'm learning about this.
Here's what I know, X, Y, and Z.
Um can you teach me some new stuff?
So I did that with I did that with what did I do that with recently I think it was with um SQL and it started talking to me about window functions and partitioned indexing.
Um, so you get into some really uh interesting and advanced topics, which is a which I think is a way to grow your skill set.
So you basically take anything that you're learning, you know, whether it's React or Next.js or Python, and you basically say, Here's what I know.
Uh, I want to become a 10x engineer.
Teach me what I don't know.
And you can get some really interesting stuff out.
Like it was teaching me about property-based testing and mutation-based testing, which is like really advanced stuff or like um reverse debugging is like what a 10x engineer will do.
And you won't so so there's some really great stuff you can get.
And that to me is the usefulness because you're exploring these higher-level fundamentals that
are built upon what you already know.
Yeah, so I think uh I've got I'm I'm in very two minds with regards to testing.
Um testing, if we just talk about the drawbacks, it has a lot of maintenance involved and um it will often mean that you're spending time setting up testing infrastructure.
Um, the benefits are that you can essentially figure out that something's working and when you change something else, uh, you don't end up with regressions and you know, you always know whether something has caused something else to fail.
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