u/Dramatic_Mixture231

~2 yoe SWE here. for around a year i was an llm boomer. I took the approach that even stuff like cursor was harmful for programming, and that every aspect of coding was a slow march that had to be practiced. TBF i worked with niche languages like template-heavy C++.

obviously coding has now largely been automated away, and mostly the engineering is left to the human, especially for greenfield development. maybe not for refactoring / optimization.

so, now I'm the bottleneck. how do I adapt to this?

what I have found:

- llm's onboard me to codebases much more quickly, i ask it to explain things in a for dummies way, then i dive deeper if necessary

- iterating on md files is hugely helpful, around 50% context window i dump progress and make the agent iterate on that

my questions:

- how do i leverage llm better as an engineer, not a coder?

- where do i draw the line and do stuff myself?

~2 yoe SWE here. for around a year i was an llm boomer. I took the approach that even stuff like cursor was harmful for programming, and that every aspect of coding was a slow march that had to be practiced. TBF i worked with niche languages like template-heavy C++.

obviously coding has now largely been automated away, and mostly the engineering is left to the human, especially for greenfield development. maybe not for refactoring / optimization.

so, now I'm the bottleneck. how do I adapt to this?

what I have found:

- llm's onboard me to codebases much more quickly, i ask it to explain things in a for dummies way, then i dive deeper if necessary

- iterating on md files is hugely helpful, around 50% context window i dump progress and make the agent iterate on that

my questions:

- how do i leverage llm better as an engineer, not a coder?

- where do i draw the line and do stuff myself?

sometimes when i scroll social media i see stuff about knowledge graphs.

it crossed my mind that I do something similar. I have a ~/dev directory where I keep task and worktree directories.

task directories correspond to a single feature. they have a plan.md, learnings.md, etc and have path "links" to worktrees and maybe other tasks. my AGENTS.md file details this

my work is becoming more overlapped than before, across several codebases. I just realized that coordinating links between work is quickly becoming like knowledge graph thing I see on social media.

so, I'm looking for a way to organize and maintain links between LLM work and what I learn from prompting the llm. a quick search shows RAG and databases. am I looking in the right direction? does what I want already exist?

I can lat pulldown around 1.3x my bodyweight for reps. Thing is, for this, pull ups, etc my grip always gives out before my back.

Obviously I can use straps but I want to work on it. I saw someone recommend deadlifts and farmer carries. What else can I do?

title. what is the mechanism that makes morning sunlight healthy, and how do i simulate it? do i need a specific kind of light?