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Every junior developer thinks getting promoted means writing better code. After watching people get promoted and not get promoted for five years, I can tell you: it's mostly other things.
I used flexbox for everything for three years because CSS Grid intimidated me. Then one explanation changed how I thought about layouts entirely. Here's the framing that finally made it make sense.
After 11 years of copy-pasting from Stack Overflow, I switched entirely to AI for my coding questions. Six months later, I have thoughts — some of which genuinely surprised me.
I've tried almost every AI tool in the last 18 months. Here's the short, honest list of what's actually in my daily workflow, what I abandoned after the hype wore off, and what surprised me.
I've been writing code professionally for 12 years. I've watched AI go from novelty to daily tool. Here's my honest, unexaggerated answer to the most anxious question in our industry.
Step-by-step guide to building a production-ready RAG pipeline using LangChain, GitHub for version control, and modern best practices for chunking, embedding, retrieval, and evaluation.