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
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
In software development, confidence is cheap. You can memorize frameworks, quote architecture patterns, and repeat industry “best practices.” After a few years, it becomes easy to sound like an expert
Software engineering invests enormous effort in measuring quality. We measure test coverage, deployment frequency, pipeline stability, mean time to recovery, cyclomatic complexity, static analysis scores, sprint velocity, and more. Dashboards are gre...
Dumbing down the development work dumbs down the team.
But enterprise applications suffered
