Practical pieces on AI-assisted engineering and software architecture.
Your delivery process is seven correct steps in an onboarding document, and everyone follows it roughly. Roughly is where the incidents come from, and an agent following it roug...
You injected a Clock, pinned it in every test, and then wrote published_at = now() in a SQL statement. There are two clocks in your service and only one of them takes instructions.
You approve a small automated edit, it reports success, and the file no longer parses. The bug is not in the regex. It is in reaching for a tool that had no way to say no.
Somebody will tell you a constraint in the database duplicates the check in your service. They are describing two different guarantees, and dropping either one costs you somethi...
Acceptance rate tells you how often engineers pressed Tab. It tells you nothing about whether your organisation is delivering faster. Here's what to measure instead.
A gate passed on your machine and failed in CI, so you assumed CI was stricter. Usually it is just cleaner, and your check has been answering a question about your laptop.
Somewhere in your setup a model is doing a job that grep would do better, on every commit. What you gave up to write it that way is the same answer twice.
Your always-on instructions file is four hundred lines and the assistant has started ignoring the middle of it. That file is the only one in your repo with a price per turn.