03 / Day in the Life
A day in the life of a software engineer.
It's not what you think. Less typing in dark rooms, more solving problems with smart people.
09:00
Stand-up
Quick sync with the team. What shipped, what's blocked, what's next.
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SlackNotionLinear
10:00
Deep work
Headphones on. Building a feature spec'd yesterday — branch, code, commit.
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VS CodeGitReact
12:30
Debugging
A bug report lands. You read the logs, reproduce it, find the off-by-one.
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SentryChrome DevTools
14:00
Pairing
Screen-share with a teammate on a tricky refactor. Two brains, one cursor.
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TupleZoomFigma
15:30
Tests & review
Write the unit tests you should've written first. Review a pull request.
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VitestGitHub PRs
16:30
AI assist
Use Copilot and Claude to draft boilerplate — then read it carefully.
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CopilotClaudeChatGPT
17:00
Ship it
Merge, deploy, watch the dashboard. Tomorrow you do it again — better.
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VercelDatadog