Friday Links: Don't use AI, learn smarter, and productivity tools
15 May 2026 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. Like construction workers and athletes with short-lived careers, we may be the first generation of software engineers without lifetime careers (5min)
#2. Apart from stealing the fun part, here’s a good list of reasons not to use AI (14min).
#3. If you want to learn a new subject on your own, here’s a field guide to learning (8min). When there’s too much noise and AI slop, simply searching on Google or YouTube isn’t enough.
#4. While reading about how to configure Librewolf (4min) (a Firefox fork), I found these two productivity extensions:
- vimium to scroll and navigate using Vim shortcuts
- news-feed-eradicator to replace feeds with motivational quotes and reduce your doomscrolling.
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about my love-hate relationship with coding (2min) and coding being just a side quest (2min).
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Cesar