Nudging with Questions: Why Telling Your AI What to Fix Triggers an Apology Death Spiral (And How to Advance Juniors)

·1 views

What I learned mentoring juniors for four decades seems to apply to today's agentic coding. "The true goal of mentoring is never to supply the answer. It is to point the flashlight into the dark corner of the state space and let the student discover the monster for themselves." — Randal L. Schwartz Search YouTube, Twitter, or developer blogs for "AI prompting" today, and you will be inundated by a relentless flood of breathless titles promising secret cheat codes: "Stop Prompting Like a Beginner: Use This 5-Step Secret Template!" "10 AI Prompts That Will Make You a 10x Engineer Overnight!" "Wh

Read the full story at DEV Community

This is an AI-generated summary. ShortSingh links to the original source for the complete article.

Discussion (0)

Azure ExpressRoute Gateway

Your ExpressRoute circuit isn't the bottleneck. Your gateway is. What the Azure ExpressRoute gateway does, how it probably works inside, and the limits that matter for private endpoints and FastPath. Audience: engineers who design or operate Azure networking over ExpressRoute. You should already know VNets, BGP basics, and what a private endpoint is.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community

ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Reliable FastAPI Realtime Access with Short-Lived Tokens for Marketplace Boards

Short answer: use short-lived access tokens, but choose the realtime surface by how explicitly it exposes authentication, subscription state, and business events during reconnects; for a marketplace whiteboard that pushes in-app notifications without polling, presence accuracy and deterministic reconciliation matter more than a long feature list. An expired token isn't the same thing as an absent editor. A marketplace operator can still have the board open while a credential is being refreshed, and a dropped transport can make a connected user look present after the user has gone. Treating tho

0 comments Read more at DEV Community

ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Mocking APIs for frontend development: MSW vs Prism vs spec-driven mocks

Frontend teams have three mocking jobs that blur together until a release goes wrong: developing against an API that does not exist yet, component and integration tests that must not hit the network, and full-journey verification against a running service. Each job has a tool that fits it, and most pain comes from using one tool for all three. This compares MSW (Mock Service Worker), Stoplight Prism, and spec-driven mocks from an OpenAPI workspace, then shows the combination that avoids fixture sprawl. MSW intercepts requests at the network layer using a Service Worker in the browser and a req

0 comments Read more at DEV Community

ProgrammingDEV Community ·

Four Marketplaces, One Listing Workflow: What Amazon, eBay, Etsy and Shopify Expect From Your Copy

If you sell on more than one marketplace, you already know the copy you write for Amazon doesn't survive a trip to Etsy. Same product, different rules — and the rules are not cosmetic. I build listing tools for a living, and here's the cheat sheet I wish someone had handed me before I rewrote the same SKU four times. Amazon — Titles get truncated hard on mobile, and Rufus surfaces content that answers buyer questions directly. Front-load the searchable keywords; save the adjectives.

0 comments Read more at DEV Community