Comment by abustamam
10 hours ago
Much of my time at work is reading through quickly typed messages from my boss and understanding exactly what questions I need to ask in order to make it easy for him to answer clearly.
Engineers who lack soft skills cannot be effective in team environments.
Being able (and willing) to write shit down is a superpower among 10x programmers who think "code is self-documenting" and don't even add comments.
RTFM and being able to quickly reduce problems to the simplest possible test case are my superpowers.
To be fair, LLMs can be quite useful for quickly finding the correct place in TFM to look when you don't necessarily have a function or feature name to go on.
Haha. I always say that I'm only a good IC not because of my technical skills but because of my communication skills and my willingness to, as Steven Covey says, seek first to understand.