Stories by vfoley
In his talk [Solving the Right Problems for Engine Programmers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B00hV3wmMY&t=997s) Mike Acton's first segment is about how new programmers are usually incompetent in three fundamental ways: practice, reasonable defaults, and problem solving.
He goes on to say that...
I see many people at work with very complex prompt shells. These include the username, hostname, active git branch and git changes, the current Python virtualenv, the npm/nodejs version, etc.
My own prompt is quite quaint in comparison:
```
:) ~$ dont_exist
bash: dont_exist: command not foun...