🌱 an LLM models our worst behavior

“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.” It’s a mantra I learned early in my software development career, one that undergirds high quality software. Code reviews, eng design reviews, and incident postmortems at tech companies hold a careful “blameless” tone. You talk about the work, the pros and cons of it, and focus on that. Never the person. As the person in the hot-seat, you remember to take a step back, and not attach your ego to your ideas. Your job is not to have good ideas, it's to ensure the best ideas win. It takes time to fully adopt this practice, but once you do, your work is better for it. Here’s a conversation I’ve had with the qwen/qwen3-coder-30b LLM multiple times over the last few weeks: Me: Implement this new features. LLM: I’ve implemented the new feature and made new tests. Me: Make sure all the tests pass. LLM: Hmmm not all the tests pass. <tries something> <tries something else> <tries again> LLM: I’ve fixed what’s relevant to me. The remaining errors are…