I’m wordy. Especially when I’m thinking and talking at the same time. That’s a recipe for disaster.
So I ramble. And I can see the eyes glazing over.
I’m much better when I can dump it all out of my head, roll it around, experiment, and edit the snot out of it. It’s one of the reasons — actually the main reason — why I keep these posts to less than 250 words.
Less is more.
But in software development, my tendency towards verbosity pays dividends.
The more explicit, the better. Dump a million messages to the console so that if you have to analyze what happened after the failure, you’ll have a complete step-by-step map — the core dump. Future me (or future someone else) will thank you.
And AI loves verbosity.
It doesn’t care if I’m rambling. It doesn’t care if I repeat myself three different ways. It doesn’t care if I’m even coherent.
AI just eats it up. The more I feed it, the more it gives me back. Round and round. AI doesn’t know what to leave out. It doesn’t know what’s important. It doesn’t know when to stop.
That’s still my job. Cut. Tighten. Refine.
Say less.
Make it mean more.
