Friday Links: Negativity, Git Notes, and hating your manager
27 Jun 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. I was wrong to think I had to point out everything “wrong” at work. I had good intentions. But it only gave me a reputation as someone problematic. Stay away from negativity. That’s this developer’s best career advice (4min)
#2. I have never used Git Notes. Yes, that’s a Git feature. But it seems to be the coolest and most unloved Git feature (5min)
#3. I don’t think I’ve ever “hated” one of my managers. And I’ve had managers who were amazing and some who didn’t know what they were doing. But here’s why we engineers (sometimes) hate our managers (7min).
#4. Despite all Internet advice about surviving the AI trend, we should stop getting good at ChatGPT (20min). Because to get “good” at using ChatGPT to execute your tradecraft is thus to get good at commoditizing your own labor and your craft.
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about how to split an array into odd pairs (an interview exercise) (6min) and some ideas to avoid being ghosted when emailing busy people (3min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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