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Being, Doing, Having: Why 50 Years of Senior Craft Lives in Context, Not Code
Community description: Why does standard AI code generation try to jump straight to 'Have' without the proper 'Be'? How ladder rungs, the 'Null-State' couch flash, and stand-up comedy explain what separates senior engineers from junior token streamers.
Dev.to | Nov 6, 2026 | Randal L. Schwartz
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Why Metaphors Like "Sourdough Starter" and "Crow vs. The AI asked: "When a bug report says 'X is broken', an LLM immediately opens X and starts patching X. But that expands laterally to both 'things like X' and 'things like X's upstream'." An unscarred LLM only looks at one point: (X, Right Now).
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