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A lot of developers seem to be afraid of generative AI and LLMs because it may replace their jobs. But as an older developer who sometimes have a hard time keeping up with new frameworks and technologies, LLMs have been life saving. Not only my productivity is high but I am able to keep up new languages and codebases and be productive almost immediately. I used to think about moving to management because it seemed I could not keep up with tech but now I have new confidence that I can keep doing my hobby as a profession for another few years. ...

I’m often asked if I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don’t, and in this article I explain why. — Read on neladunato.com/blog/why-wont-grow-freelance-studio-into-agency/

Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses | Hacker News — Read on news.ycombinator.com/item

Community driven, articles, resources, guides, interview questions, quizzes for DevOps. Learn to become a modern DevOps engineer by following the steps, skills, resources and guides listed in this roadmap. — Read on roadmap.sh/devops

Ask HN: Has anyone switched from a professional job to a (more) manual one? | Hacker News — Read on news.ycombinator.com/item

Ask HN: What 60 folks can give career and general life advice for 40 folks | Hacker News — Read on news.ycombinator.com/item

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | Hacker News — Read on news.ycombinator.com/item

Follow up to my last post, the people I admire the most are usually startup founders or business people. And then creators of open source softwares. This weekend, I also met my engineer turned entrepreneur friend and saw Jobs movie. It seems I know what I should do. I want a business that gives a lot of freedom, especially freedom to be with my kids. If I can involve kids in the business, it would be even better. Would love low stress business but it is not a requirement. ...

Just the other day, I happened to skim a blog post, “My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span.” It struck a chord, and I realized that I’m in the same boat. It’s been ages since I’ve properly read a book. Even when I have audiobooks on, I’m doing something else and hardly ever genuinely enjoy them. I’ve got this habit too, of kicking off loads of projects and then ditching them once it’s time to roll up my sleeves and do the detailed work. Setting up a new project is a rush, but finishing something? That’s a snooze fest. ...

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