Hey friends 👋. I know, I have been away for a while. That is because I needed to recalibrate my priorities to focus more on finishing my GenAI specialization. Since I don’t want to throw at you AI-generated content (It doesn’t mean I don’t use it as a helper–but it means that I care about the genuineness of the content I share with you), I took some time to focus on that. Don’t forget to take some time out to rest and step back to gain some perspective.

✨ New posts from last digest

What is LangChain?

What is this tool that everyone talks about when it comes to building your specialized agents? In this post, I provide a brief overview of the library—we will delve into more depth as I showcase my projects.

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What makes a Pragmatic Programmer?

I started reading this amazing and timeless piece of knowledge. This is my take on the first chapter’s tips.

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🔍 Dev Nuggets

As I studied a lot of the TPS (Toyota production system) in my engineering degree, I have a lot of property to tell you that a machine can only reliably automate a process once humans have mastered the craft. This means the process was simplified to a point where you can avoid the GIGO—Garbage in, garbage out.

This essentially means that the workers eliminated muda (Japanese word for waste) in the process that doesn’t add value for the customer.

From the official Toyota page:
“[…] it is necessary to first be able to do the work smoothly and correctly by hand, determine abnormalities in the work, and replace those operations with machines. In other words, rather than starting with a machine from the beginning, you must first try doing it thoroughly by hand, implement kaizen, eliminate waste, inconsistencies, and unreasonable requirements.”

🔮 What’s Coming Next

• More on career development, including management tools that any dev can apply to prioritize things and do root cause analysis

• More AI content, including projects

Thanks for reading — and feel free to hit reply if something resonates or if you just want to say hey.

Have a great week 🌍
— Eyji

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