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The advice I don't give juniorsTwenty-five years of technical advice has mostly expired. What's left worth passing on is the short list of things that never moved: the domain, working backward, reading, and trust.
Don't outsource the thinkingDevelopers are starting to refuse to work without AI. The tools were never the problem — handing over the part that thinks is.
Modeling the domain firstWhy I reach for the domain model before the framework, the database, or the API.
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