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LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)

Software Misadventures

CHAPTER

From Codes to Collaboration: A Journey in Software Development

This chapter highlights the importance of hands-on experience and project building for junior software engineers, emphasizing the value of practical projects over formal education. It narrates a significant career transition from corporate engineering to independent development and the challenges faced in this new path, including the dynamics of partnering with a spouse in a startup. The speaker shares their journey of turning a small web application idea into a successful business, culminating in their participation in the prestigious Y Combinator program.

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