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The answer to this is to shift left into product/design.

Sure, I'm doing less technical thinking these days. But all the hard thinking is happening on feature design.

Good feature design is hard for AI. There's a lot of hidden context: customer conversations, unwritten roadmaps, understanding your users and their behaviour, and even an understanding of your existing feature set and how this new one fits in.

It's a different style of thinking, but it is hard, and a new challenge we gotta embrace imo.

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Not sure if they're still doing it, but GitLab does the code review interview, and I too really liked it.

Before the interview, you clone the repo and get the app running on your machine.

For the first half of the interview, you review a pull request in real time. There's a mix of obvious and non-obvious callouts. And the second half, you actually implement your suggestions.

Honestly the code review portion alone is a great indicator of a dev's experience and soft skills.

Taking it for a spin today

hey kev quirk i'm tom quirk. great article!

I appreciate your opinion. And maybe there is some truth to your statement.

But in the professional context, none of that really matters IMO. If someone in your team is offended (and yes, it might seem stupid to you), then the dynamic of the team is thrown off. And ultimately, productivity suffers. That's how I'm thinking about it these days.

I'm so glad you feel this way! And thanks for your suggestion. I'll definitely do a follow-up post on good alternatives to commonly used non-inclusive phrases. This tweet by the Women in Tech SEO community covers some great alternatives to "guys" - https://twitter.com/techseowomen/status/1317545475021701126 reply

So many words! This tweet covers some great alternatives: https://twitter.com/techseowomen/status/1317545475021701126

Hey everyone, OP here. I know this can be a somewhat controversial topic, so I'm keen to hear your perspectives on inclusive language and inclusion in general. Thanks for stumbling upon my post :)

Someone get me Deadmau5's number! https://music-grid.surge.sh/?fbclid=IwAR3Xc0-eQGjjQxebL2UJW4...

It's interesting that email isn't more common in promotion of OSS. It seems like there's lack of tooling and so people put it in the "too much work" bucket. Email is one of the most successful marketing channels across all industries and so it's a shame there's nothing out there for open source makers to help them easily add email to their toolbelt.

I'm building https://gitmail.io, an email marketing tool for open source projects. Reach out if you'd like to voice your thoughts!

Here's a friendly Python library that is ideal for this: https://github.com/tomquirk/linkedin-api

Awesome! Sorry, I was only semi-serious, because my last name is Quirk and it seemed like a good fit :D

Are you hiring? :joy:

There you go! We haven't got the actual model up there currently, but great point - will aim to get an actual demo deployed Thanks for the advice