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Development Driven Testing

The last two developers I onboarded both asked about test driven development. They were shocked when I said TDD is unnecessary for most work. I've tried writing tests first, but over the past 25 years...

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Plan Before You Prompt: Templates for Coding Agents

AI coding agents are fast, but they don't know what you know. Without upfront planning, an agent will confidently scaffold an entire architecture around the wrong assumptions. And you won't notice unt...

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Egoless Programming Is Systems Design

The original egoless programming principles are about mindset. Be kind. Don't take it personally. Critique the code, not the coder. Good advice, but mindset strains under pressure, fatigue, and deadli...

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Egoless Programming: Greatest Hits

My first experience with "critique the code, not the coder" was from a tech lead who had a printout of the ten commandments of egoless programming pinned on our office wall. They would say we are not ...

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Code Reviewing for Blunder Goats

A new starter, second week on the job, pushed a change with an undefined variable. It passed testing and passed code review. Then the service team's phones started ringing because users couldn't log i...

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Code Review for Teams That Ship

When the reviewer isn't spending cognitive load on things the coder or CI should have caught, they can go deeper on the things that need human judgment.

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