Delegate is a fancy word for pawning off work to some other schmuck so you can focus on more important things, like browsing Hacker News or optimizing your Vim config. It's a crucial skill for any 10X engineer who wants to maintain their rockstar status without actually doing any real work.

How to use it in a sentence

• "I don't have time to deal with this trivial bug fix, I'll just delegate it to the new intern and hope they don't screw it up too badly."

• "As the lead architect, my job is to delegate all the boring implementation work to the junior devs while I focus on the big picture, like choosing the perfect shade of dark mode for my IDE."

If you actually want to learn more...

• Agile Handover: Learn how to effectively delegate work in an agile team without causing chaos and confusion.

• Avoiding Repetition: Discover techniques for delegating repetitive tasks to code, so you can focus on more interesting problems.

• Rake Abuses: Find out how to abuse Rake, a popular Ruby build tool, to delegate all sorts of tasks, from running tests to making coffee.

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