Friday Links: Don't use AI, learn smarter, and productivity tools

Hey 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). (Bzzz…Radio voice) This email was brought to you by… Street-Smart Coding, 30 lessons to help you…