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With over 30 years in the trenches of the technology industry I have worn many hats. I’ve had the privilege of working for the human genome project, helped elect a president I believed in, and was a systems development engineer at AWS. Most recently I’m a senior devops engineer with MIT Online Learning building sand castles in the cloud with Python and Pulumi. I <3 Python!

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    Try an AI Speed Run For Your Next Side Project

    Chris Patti

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    The Problem I have for as long as I can remember had a bit of a problem with analysis paralysis and tunnel vision. If I’m working on a problem and get stuck, I have a tendency to just sit there paging through code trying to understand where to go next. It’s a very unproductive habit and one I’m committed to breaking, because the last thing you want is to lose hours of wall clock time with no progress on your work. I was talking to my boss about this a few weeks back when I had a crazy idea: “Hey…