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Don't Build a General Purpose API (4 Years Later)
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Four reasons to leave a code comment (2023)
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Reasons Not to Implicitly Memoize
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Getting Answers from a Big PDF with RubyLLM
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Won't AI always need human backup?
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Failover to Human Intelligence
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Getting Answers from a Big PDF with RubyLLM
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Adventures in Ruby-esque type enforcement
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Long Term Refactors
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Long Term Refactors
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Long Term Refactors
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hakunin
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Long Term Refactors
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Long Term Refactors
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Reliable communication allows for simpler interfaces
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Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
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CMS Trap (2013)
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Adventures in Ruby-esque type enforcement
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Adventures in Ruby-esque type enforcement
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Adventures in Ruby-esque type enforcement
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Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End
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Rails – narrative vs. model centric approach
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Good Engineering is not Premature Optimization
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It's Not Premature Optimization
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on Oct 14, 2022
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It's Not Premature Optimization
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Writing maintainable code is a communication skill
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297 points
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Maintainable Code Explains Itself
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