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As a developer, how do you work smarter and not harder? Oftentimes it feels like I don't have enough time to accomplish building the systems I want. I'm considering, perhaps I'm inefficient with my work? >Think of pagination - sounds easy but then you need a search system with more than one database. One search form may need filtering fields across databases, and it becomes messy. Combining the two databases isn't feasible, as all DBs are large. So you start considering some possibilities. >scoping out new solutions - seems as simple as getting on GitHub explore, and using an established solution. But it's not always that simple. Image search took a a few months of my time looking at CLIP, image hashes, color profiles, hash algos, tagging, etc. No one seems to have done this work. There's just so much to do for a single intermediate sized system, and maybe I'm working too slow and carefully? Somehow folks pump out hacker forums with escrow payment systems, fancy JS webapp storefronts, nocodb level of difficulty and scope projects?? I don't get it. How do they have the time?

>>88808 What I've learned is that getting better at coding is not worth it. You'll pull your hair out trying to impress your bosses. They will dangle the carrot of promotion and raise in front of you. Notice how their promotions and salaries don't depend on them being the best coders who perform excellently all the time.

> As a developer, how do you work smarter and not harder? Copilot the stupid soykaf (which is 99.9% of all code ever), only do yourself stuff that AI can't. In programming this is basically everything other than conceptually novel algorithmic stuff, so this is something you can save your efforts for. Yeah, you'll think "but muh code structure I dont wanna spaghetti" - well ask AI to refactor the soykaf however you want - it's exceptionally good at this.

>>88810 Sounds pretty niggerlicious to me.

>>88811 coders are niggers by definition, so he's right. there's no point in putting effort into anything you write most of the time