The bot couldn't answer it. Neither could I.
I read the question my support bot had fluffed, gave the correct answer off the top of my head, and was wrong. The docs had fooled the person who wrote them.
Categories
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Leadership
Check the code you're reading is current
I was a minute from filing a fix for a feature that had shipped the day before. The reason I had not noticed turned out to be a rule of my own, doing precisely what I told it to.
Three places a document can live
A spec, a how-to and a README walk into a repo. Only one of them should still be there in six months.
I went looking for the reason not to build it
The requirements were done and I hadn't written a line of code. So I spent a day trying to talk myself out of the whole thing.
A Slack channel with nobody in it
I asked nine agent sessions to stop compiling for forty minutes. What came back read like a team of colleagues, and I haven't worked out what to do about that.
Which one needs me next
A dozen agent sessions running at once is not a capacity problem. Working out which of them is stuck is, and the obvious way to find out is the wrong one.
Ready for human
I run a coding session per repository and they can't talk to each other. For a while the thing carrying messages between them was me, and I kept getting it wrong.
What I took back off the shelf
I put my working practice on a public shelf, and then took some of it back off again. Working out which half was the interesting part.
Who owns the pager?
The hard part of on-call is not fixing broken systems at three in the morning. It is an employer borrowing a life it does not pay for.
