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The last two developers I onboarded both asked about test driven development.

AI coding agents are fast, but they don't know what you know.

As software engineers, we have to go beyond building robust systems.

Why this matters for engineers, we negotiate more than you think.

Antifragility is my goal for developer experience.

**What is claude insights:** The `/insights` command in Claude Code generates an HTML report analysing your usage patterns across all your Claude Code sessions.

Covers how to stay honest without torching relationships when everyone's heated and the stakes are real.

Cascade failures happen when small problems trigger chain reactions that take down far more than the original fault.

A friend of mine recently attended an open forum panel about how engineering orgs can better support their engineers.

The original egoless programming principles are about mindset.

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.

A new starter, second week on the job, pushed a change with an undefined variable.

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.

With chatbots and coding agents we've all experienced those moments that make us stop trusting the first answer.

At work someone asked how to rank higher.

When I was a kid, adults kept telling me things were impossible.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a doctor because my name is MD Hansen and I wanted MD Hansen MD on my office door.