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I started freelancing this year. This has meant jumping between unfamiliar codebases and getting productive as quickly as possible. A year ago this process entailed scouring through READMEs and directly pairing with a more veteran engineer to further familiarize myself with the codebase. Today, the process couldn’t be more different. I prompt an agent to walk me through general architecture, set up my local build environments and I’m often opening a PR within the first few hours of work. ...

In a past job, I broke networking within my first week of starting. The change? A single line commit that added a customer domain to a reverse proxy control loop that directed traffic to a specific server. api.somecompany.com, api.anotherfancynewcompany.ai { reverse_proxy http://localhost:4200 } At a glance, this code is legible, it should work; we’re manually proxying traffic from two domains to a locally running instance. A passing caddy validate run further verifies this. ...