I’ve seen this negative incentive at a much smaller level at a few companies of various sizes. It was what I was talking about a couple weeks ago about reading how Google is tackling it with maintenance motivated incentives from leadership.
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OOP, Mocks, and Pain: Use FP Instead
We need to talk about OOP, Mocks, & Pain.
When I started on an Angular team, I got really irritated about all the
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What I Use LLM / AI’s For
Been awhile trying to figure out this AI / LLM thing. If I step back, and see what I actually do, it’s 2 things:
- sounding board
- code review
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You May Need an Anti-Corruption Layer
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.
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