Friday Links: Seniority, RFC, and websites
24 Oct 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. Junior me wanted to refactor everything around me to follow “conventions.” Mid-level me worked extra hours and on weekends to prove I was “committed.” The thing is as we get more senior, all those implicit expectations change (5min). They often make you lose trust.
#2. Early developers didn’t have StackOverflow or YouTube or ChatGPT. They relied on “skill, curiosity, and persistence.” Wow! I found a post about RFC (13min), (the documents with the building block of the Internet), but I found a manifesto for coding creativity.
#3. As AI-generated content floods social media and the whole internet, we need places where there’s still a human touch. And that might be your own website (4min).
#4. These days, we all agree on one thing: there’s too much hype around AI. It’s the new tool in town promising to kill coders. But that’s not the majority view on AI (5min) and someone dares to say it out loud.
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about AI being a sloppy junior coder (2min) and my 5 writing principles for consistency (2min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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