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Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by fy20 »

To spend less energy on work.

For the last year I've been working a job where I need to be in the office in the mornings, have a few hours break in the afternoon, then have meetings in the evening. By the time I'm done I'm completely drained, and more often than not my kids are already asleep.

I've come to the conclusion that however hard my team and I work has basically zero impact on the company as a whole, compared to whatever seemingly tiny decisions some exec makes. So it makes no sense for us to be working hard and burning ourselves out. I've progressed enough with my career (>10 years experience) that I'm not concerned about future career prospects.

If anyone has any suggestions of how to find more sustainable roles I'm all ears.

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by asicsp »

Work:

* update my already published ebooks rather than working on a new one, will likely take more than a year

* create interactive apps for exercises

* contribute to FOSS (been doing some small PRs, filing issues etc, want to do more)

* find something new (that's not related to writing) to keep me creatively busy

Personal:

* this month I finally went for a trek after about 5 years, planning to make it a habit again

* may be start cycling again too

See my blog post (https://learnbyexample.github.io/2022-year-in-perspective/) for my 2022 year in perspective

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by vl »

drvdevd wrote: post #7
rvz wrote: post #4

The same as the years before: [0] To not have any "New Years Resolutions" and to prepare for 2030 instead. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752304

Since it seems no one has yet asked: what do you consider significant about 2030?

And how one prepares for it? :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

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Post by muzani »

Find a way to train AI to do my job, based around feeding it relevant docs in a certain format.

It'll probably be quite iterative, e.g. giving it reqs and bits of relevant code to output a draft spike doc, feeding the API docs to complete the spike doc, getting AI to ask questions of scenarios I didn't think about.

And then generating tests and drafting architecture from that spike doc.

Goal at the end of the year would be to have an actual pipeline for creating code from reqs.

The final test would be creating a ray tracer with it - something I don't know how to do yet, but it should be quite doable.

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