Eric Elliott (@ericelliott

Eric Elliott

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Eric Elliott

@ericelliott_

✨Make some magic 🖤 In love 🔥 Manager, Adobe Firefly 🪄 Conjured SudoLang 📖 Author of books on AI, AIDD, JS, FP

San Francisco, CA

Joined March 2008

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Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Dec 8, 2025
Did you know you can learn AI Driven Development directly from me via video? Book a call here and I'll jump on zoom with you for an hour, screen share, and walk you through my process. app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/bbca9…
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Nov 17, 2018
How to speed up developers: * Give them one task at a time to focus on * Avoid context switches * Cut meetings * Avoid interruptions
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Nov 24, 2022
Doing a code review right now - saw some code I did not immediately follow, so instead of mentally running the code line-by-line like I normally would, I pasted into GPT-3 and asked questions. GPT-3 explained the code to me - correctly. 🤯
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Sep 17, 2019
How to speed up developers: * Give them one task at a time to focus on * Avoid context switches * Cut meetings * Avoid interruptions
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Nov 12, 2020
How to speed up developers: * Give them one task at a time to focus on * Avoid context switches * Cut meetings * Avoid interruptions
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Jul 6, 2019
Senior JavaScript developers should understand: * Closures * Functional programming * Function composition * The prototype chain
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Apr 24, 2019
How to speed up developers: * Give them one task at a time to focus on * Avoid context switches * Cut meetings * Avoid interruptions
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Apr 15, 2018
Dev productivity killers: * Notifications * Meetings * Emails * Interruptions Great managers minimize these. Bad managers cause them.
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Jun 20, 2019
2 months into TDD: Tests are hard to write & brittle. 2 years in: Tests taught me better code patterns, reduce bugs 40%-80% and eliminate fear of change. 10 years in: TDD changed my life.
TDD Changed My Life
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Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Jun 6, 2019
Dev productivity killers: * Notifications * Meetings * Emails * Interruptions Great managers minimize these. Bad managers cause them.
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Jan 27, 2018
How to speed up developers: * Give them one task at a time to focus on * Avoid context switches * Cut meetings * Avoid interruptions
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Mar 27, 2019
Don't abstract too early. Wait until you've copied and pasted a couple times. You need example use-cases to create good abstractions.
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Nov 2, 2019
Dev productivity killers: * Notifications * Meetings * Emails * Interruptions Great managers minimize these. Bad managers cause them.
Eric Elliott
@ericelliott_
Dec 14, 2019
Memorizing algorithms is not computer science. Having lots of them memorized is not a signal of seniority - often the opposite. Commonly used algorithms get added to languages & libraries. Algorithm lottery quizzes won't tell you what you need to know about a candidate.