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💯 the job (and the fun!) is basically to teach yourself new things on an ongoing basis, forever! 🚀

I need a good site to learn AI

Don't let people tell you things are hard or only for super expert god tier programmers. Don't settle for things that make your solutions be harder than they should be. Embrace mistakes. Mistakes are great teachers Embrace crazy ideas. Few are good, but they're fun and great for learning

i think being self-taught we tend to do a lot of exploratory stuff that you don't usually get to even consider in formal learning situations – this helps us form a different way to analyze and solve problems, and that is beneficial in all sorts of situations, not just coding!

This is the mindset that made me love programming. I really didn’t like it in high school. Once I started teaching myself things out of school, I was hooked!

Can't emphasize "Use your other skills" enough. I'm also self-taught, coming from an English + Music degree background. Developing the ability to bridge the gap between dev and business sides of the company via clear writing is invaluable. Same goes for any other ability (e.g. artistic talent).

If I have a suggestion to give is to not get discouraged if your suggestion/PR gets refused. That is valuable information for everybody. Those times that I decided to cancel someone's PR, I usually end up doing a co-authored commit with what to me is the intended approach. Because it was helpful aw