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Articles tagged #developer-experience

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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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Antifragility Mindset

Antifragility is my goal for developer experience. When something breaks, I want the fix to make it harder for that same thing to happen again.

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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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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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Developer Experience: Make the Right Way the Easy Way