Talk to at least two new people every week. Ask them what they do, what problems they are solving, and what challenges they are facing. Talk to Marketing, Customer Support, Sales, Finance, Legal, Product, Design, UX, etc.
When you build the habit of talking to people from diverse perspectives each and every week, a magical thing will happen.
You will see the bigger picture. You will notice bigger problems to solve. You will find completely different ways to solve existing problems.
Mainly combining online chatbot + one integrated in the IDE.
For things that are higher level than the code, I go to the online chatbot. For things directly related to a piece of code in front of me, the one on the IDE.
TL;DR just use AI
Definitely the conclusion I reached as well :)
I follow a similar schedule where I try to group the meetings into some batches and do deep work sessions around those batches.
Thank you for the shoutout, Fran!
It's the best to protect your deep work time!
Using AI can be a force multiplier.
Here is another:
Talk to at least two new people every week. Ask them what they do, what problems they are solving, and what challenges they are facing. Talk to Marketing, Customer Support, Sales, Finance, Legal, Product, Design, UX, etc.
When you build the habit of talking to people from diverse perspectives each and every week, a magical thing will happen.
You will see the bigger picture. You will notice bigger problems to solve. You will find completely different ways to solve existing problems.
You will deliver x10 the impact.
That's true! As engineers, it's pretty easy to stay in your cave where you only see a small piece of the product you are building
What are the top tools from your workflow?
Mainly combining online chatbot + one integrated in the IDE.
For things that are higher level than the code, I go to the online chatbot. For things directly related to a piece of code in front of me, the one on the IDE.
What are yours?
Depends between work and personal work!
My work setup is similar to yours, while at home I use cline, deepseek and the newest Gemini models