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Cedric Chin
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It’s always lovely to see software engineers link to my original piece on tacit knowledge, saying that they identify with the skilled people I describe in it. But it’s also a little bittersweet, because I gave up the pursuit of that level of intuitive expertise in software.
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This made me think of: commoncog.com/blog/tacit-kno "In my previous job, my technical lead, Hieu, had an uncanny ability to sit in on requirements meetings and, within minutes, sketch out a program structure that would be the simplest possible solution with the fewest moving parts."
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You're not wrong. It's hard (impossible) to teach or even measure yet seeing two devs with this intuitive power speak in half sentences even seeming to share thoughts telepathically. Hard to measure but can be observed.
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Environment is also so important to grow this within a team. Trust builds and understanding of your code bases. Pairing, asking questions, understanding, cross functional teams of t shaped skill sets, tasks over roles. There's a lot of variables and it's never a guarantee.
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