Thank you for the link - I was just thinking that there were some core principles missing imo and yet there they are in the full text
For me "Persevere" is probably the main one, many people in the comments here mention the difficulty of making it in a niche field, one that you love and are good at. Personally I lived in a tent/garage for 5 years before finally becoming successful.
Also "Location" resonates. I had to move to a new city when I was starting out due to over saturation in my field at home.
My motivation was mainly the fact that Bitbucket cut their free tier, and who knows how long GitHub will be free? So I tried and found out how easy git actually is to sync without third parties
I got into embedded 10 years ago, there really is something about driving hardware directly that is just so rewarding.
For AI I've been using Cecli which is cli and can actually run the compile step then fix any errors it finds - in addition to using Context7 MCP for syntax.
Not quite 10x yet but productivity has improved for me many times over. It's just how you use the tools available
Cecli (pronounced like "Ceclily") is a new AI coding assistant. Originally forked from Aider but now over 1000 commits ahead of the old project, Cecli has evolved to be much more.
Now with MCP, tools, skills, built-in TODO list, repo map, ask-code workflow OR agentic OR in-line coding. Includes the git integration, auto linting and testing that you need.
Open Source, built with Python, actively developed.
Personally I use "agent mode" in Cecli for almost everything - I don't know about other AI coding agents but you can easily set up tests to run and validate the output.
Since MCP came out the quality of code has improved since there is always context7 and fetch to look up syntax.
But yes at some point you need to look at the code yourself just to be sure
For posterity, if anyone can ever find this comment amongst all the others:
We went with Instagram ads, where we have the most followers. The result: 4 paid bookings in 48 hours - all confirmed leads from the new Instagram ad campaign.
It's fine now, somehow got to #1 on Hacker News and 1000's of visitors did that. Learned something new about Cloudflare Cache Settings, it won't happen again
Not much chance of that at this point - I'm almost 50 years old and managed to make a living purely from performing so far (with a small exception of the pandemic, where I did coding mainly)
For me "Persevere" is probably the main one, many people in the comments here mention the difficulty of making it in a niche field, one that you love and are good at. Personally I lived in a tent/garage for 5 years before finally becoming successful.
Also "Location" resonates. I had to move to a new city when I was starting out due to over saturation in my field at home.