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Describing Errors, Bugs and Problems

Do you feel like you're always using the same words or sentences to describe problems?

Follow this 5-day plan to build vocabulary and sentence structures to talk about technical things that go wrong.

Day 1: Listen to the Null Podcast about how systems break when your last name is ‘Null’. Listen out for programming terms related to syntax, symbols and constraints.

Day 2: Take a quiz - when to use could vs. should when talking about issues?

Day 3: Study 10 phrasal verbs for solving issues in tech and create sentences with each

Day 4: Read about famous edge cases - the Y2K bug or when Amazon started paying customers

Day 5: Look through this full glossary of bug-related terminology - which can you use in your job?

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I’ve been really enjoying The AI Stack for Devs lately. I usually scroll straight to the “AI word of the day”… it sticks in my head, and when it pops up later in a podcast or discussion, I already know what people are talking about!

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