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> See the comment above: “I'm not even sure what to recommend for developing good software judgment and habits.“. It’s like a chess coach admonishing their subject to simply “think harder”. Not helpful.

Hey, it seems like you took this as gatekeeping or something. These skills can definitely be taught or self-learned, I've done it and seen it done many times.

My point was only that I don't know resources that can act as a shortcut (my actual word above), i.e. ways to skip over the longer path of gaining experience through long engagement with the topic. So maybe more like a chess coach saying they don't know any books that let a beginner jump ahead to being a more experienced player?

There are hundreds of past threads on HN about books to level up in software, so clearly some people have thoughts about this. I just don't know what to recommend a data scientist who needs these skills immediately.

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What you said wasn’t egregious or anything, no worries. I’ve seen some incomprehensible code from data scientists with PhDs, stuff that has no excuse. I also know of one single resource for essential coding skills specific to data scientists either.

Sometimes a rant on a topic brews in my head for weeks or months, and I will uncork it on a random passerby that brings up the subject—which happened to be you this time.

But, I’ve had coworkers who like clockwork sneer at anything a data scientist wrote. “Why did you do it that way?”. When asked for advice on how to improve it, they huffily say nevermind. It’s ingratiating as hell.