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I am a developer. Senior developer
Everybody wants to be a developer. You get a MacBook, a kicker table at the office, free lunch, coffee and fruits and, if you’re lucky, you can even get a chance to work from your home most of the time. How cool is that? Because being a developer is so awesome, I was curious to…
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Silence is what remains
It was the end of the ’80s, and I was in the middle of 5th grade. In math class, I was given an issue of Math Journal—a publication made for students interested in math topics beyond the regular curriculum. I was a bit above average in math, so the teacher subscribed me without even telling…
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How I got deprecated by AI
I used to be a brilliant developer. I could write beautiful code, understand stakeholders even before they spoke, and I was able to answer any question about our complex domain in seconds. Sometimes all at the same time. I could tell the history of every line of code in our projects — when it was…
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How I Outsmarted Artificial Intelligence with Natural Stupidity
I was always an average developer. Although I had stardom moments, most of the time I struggled with basic programming problems—how to organize my classes, refactor the code, and where to put what. Until someone would make a simple remark in a code review or a water-cooler discussion, and suddenly it all made sense to…
Short Stories from the Life of a Developer
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