We need to talk about OOP, Mocks, & Pain.
When I started on an Angular team, I got really irritated about all the as any / as Partial<T> for all the mocks/stubs the various teams were using in tests. I’ve learned over the years to assume empathy, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
Been awhile trying to figure out this AI / LLM thing. If I step back, and see what I actually do, it’s 2 things:
Rubber Ducking with Claude Opus 4 this afternoon to see if it worked this week, and it did. We chatted about a typing problem I see in a lot of code bases, whether they use Ports & Adapters/Hexagonal/Onion or not: the lack of an anti-corruption layer.
(more…)Coming back to typed 100% AWS Lambda API’s, I’m convinced the config module is an anti-pattern if you’re using TypeScript.
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