September 4, 2026 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The End of Summer
September 4, 2026 at 9:18 am
I use the slower times to create some POC's . It's also the time where gaps in documentation become visible when the expert is on leave.
Lately trying to get familiar with AI for code / document / analysis goals. Recently a third party introduced Postgres, so we have a lot to explore.
September 4, 2026 at 10:41 am
When things are hectic, we don't have the time to explore what we can improve in our development process, even though this has a rapid payback.
One of my colleagues used quiet time to build a set of CLI commands to simplify standard developer tasks. We've extended this since. It shaves off a click here, reduced 3 tasks to 1 elsewhere. The benefit soon mounts up.
In effect, we use quiet time to beget quiet time.
There's an element of self-care with quiet time. There's value in keeping some back for yourself for your own personal development. This is a win-win as far as I am concerned. I enjoy learning, and what I learn feeds back into the service I provide for my employer.
With AI capable of doing so much, our value is shifting to the thoughts behind process improvement rather than grinding code.
September 4, 2026 at 2:05 pm
quite time begets quiet time. I like that.
Certainly a good time for experiments, growth, and improvement.
September 7, 2026 at 12:23 am
I and most of my fellow developers are in a slow time right now. I've been in this situation for a couple months. None of us really like it, as we feel like we're in a holding pattern. Our boss keeps talking about "projects that are coming", but even when we ask her for more details, she never shares with us. The dozens of contractors that management has hired are very busy working on AI and other things. However, my fellow employees and I are skeptical of ever learning what the contractors are keeping to themselves. There's been times in the past where they'll hire contractors, they'll do a bunch of work, then they disappear along with everything they did.
I've been spending my "free time" doing a lot of refactoring of code. There are applications I've worked on and improved them by making them consistent with the rest of software practice used, instead of them being based on what the contractor wanted to do but not in step with our standards. But I'm running out of ideas on what to do next and certainly I cannot wing it for the rest of 2026.
Kindest Regards, Rod Connect with me on LinkedIn.
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