Changelog News What actually makes you senior
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Dec 1, 2025 Discover what truly defines senior developers, with insights into reducing ambiguity and tackling fuzzy tasks. Explore Tega Brain's innovative browser extension that filters out AI-generated content, ensuring cleaner search results. Hear about Andrew Kelley's controversial move from GitHub to Codeberg amid concerns over declining engineering culture. Plus, delve into the complexities of programming languages, and learn about crucial SSD data retention risks that could jeopardize your stored information.
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Clarify Before You Build
- Senior engineers reduce ambiguity by asking the right questions before acting.
- Clarity about problem, user, and assumptions enables confident execution.
Make Fuzzy Work Concrete
- When handed something fuzzy, make it concrete before coding.
- Spend time upfront to remove ambiguity so the team can execute with confidence.
Filter Out Post‑2022 AI Content
- Use source-date filters to avoid AI-generated content when researching.
- Install Tega Brain's extension to limit search results to before Nov 30, 2022.