Engineers often write code without understanding the business problem it solves. Whether you're coding manually or using AI, you need to know if your work acquires better clients, improves operations, increases uptime, or raises capital. Get closer to the business problem.
Most people are operating too disconnected from that business problem. Think of an engineer that writes a piece of code not really knowing what that code serves. Like what business value are you creating by putting that piece of code? You know, whether you're writing yourself or using AI, it doesn't matter. You need to understand what the business problem is and you need to get closer to the business problem even though your operating model is different. Mm-hmm. Spend the time to really understand the business problem. The business problem could be we need better clients, we need more operational success, better uptime, whatever it is. We need more money, we need to raise money. Whatever you're doing is really feeding into solving a business problem. So my advice number one is really get closer to the business problem and understand it.
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