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- Make debugging easier
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- When working on a team, you should usually ask the question
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- Shipping cadence matters a lot. Think hard about what will get you shipping quickly and often
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- [Expert Generalists](https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html), martinfowler.com, proposes an interesting take on the "T-shaped engineer"
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- The Characteristics of an Expert Generalist: Curiosity, Collaborativeness, Customer Focus, Favor Fundamental Knowledge, Blend of Generalist and Specialist Skills, Sympathy for Related Domains
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- Assessing Expert Generalists: hiring and career progression
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- Growing Expert Generalists: From Tools to Fundamentals
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- "Why does our attention keep drifting toward tool expertise? It isn't because people are shortsighted or lazy; it's because the fundamentals are hard to see amid the noise."
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- Expert Generalists still need Specialists
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- Expert Generalists in the Age of LLMs
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- "Similarly to a specialist, an LLM can rapidly answer questions that an Expert Generalist will have when working in a new domain."
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- "Rather than looking for “the answer”, they prompt them to generate questions, explaining mechanisms, and providing examples and even tools that help explore the underlying mechanisms of an idea."
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## Other general material and list of resources
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