97-things-every-programmer-should-know

I bet you a paycheck that of anyone read one of the “97 things” books, they would think the essays are AI generated even though they came out way before LLMs. https://github.com/97-things/97-things-every-programmer-shou...

I recently re-read parts of this book thst I haven’t read in years. https://github.com/97-things/97-things-every-programmer-shou... I think it originally came out in 2013. If I were just introduced to it today, I would think some of the articles were AI written with only slight prompting. It’s sad that if I write something from scratch, without any writing assistance besides spell checking, mostly for internal company consumption I now review it to see if it smells like AI. (Just like I would have used a dash above. But I don’t anymore because it has an AI smell and I had to get out of the habit)

This is a good start https://github.com/97-things/97-things-every-programmer-shou...

Does it work? If it works then you have to think twice before any changes. The irony is, poorly written often also means unintended consequences if once you refactor. Balloon grabs are the worst. The business doesn't care about "aesthetics". It cares about results. I'm certainly not going to defend poorly written software, only that it all depends on your POV. So unless un-poorly can deliver significant value to the business it's best to consider other ways to deliver value. https://github.com/97-things/97-things-every-programmer-shou...