Getting software to work is just the beginning
Everything will work In application development, and probably in every IT field, almost any tool will get you to a working result. Any tool, any combination of frameworks and technologies can be strun
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What AI Context Limitations Teach About Software Development
Ask an AI coding assistant to fix a bug in one file, and there's a decent chance it patches the symptom at the call site rather than the logic several layers away that's actually causing it. That orig
Tech Debt Isn't a Backlog Problem. It's a "Done" Problem.
Technical debt is usually described as a bill that arrives later for a purchase made earlier: speed bought on credit, with the cost deferred to some future date. Ask practitioners why debt accumulates
Tooling Is the Icing on the Cake, Not the Cake Itself
There's a recurring message on LinkedIn: Java 8 is legacy. Java 21 is enterprise-ready. Upgrade, or fall behind. Ask the same people directly whether a better language makes for a better product, and
How Do You Tell Your Software Application Is of High Quality? Part 2
Part 2 — Essential and Accidental Complexity Part 1's answer to that question was 'you can't' — and that still stands. No controlled counterfactual exists, and it isn't coming. What's fixable is narro
How Do You Tell Your Software Application Is of High Quality?
Part 1 — Problem Definition You can't. Not with any test you currently run. Every test in a standard suite answers one question: does the software do what it's supposed to do. None of them answer a se
