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Let’s talk about the ghost in the machine. It’s the invisible force that makes a six-month-old codebase feel like an ancient, unknowable ruin. It’s the reason a “five-minute fix” can
Ever get that feeling in an engineering planning meeting? You’re talking about velocity, story points, and sprint goals, but you can’t shake a simple question: “Are we actually getting better?”
Ever look at a piece of code and just… get a bad feeling? It works, it passes the tests, but something about it feels off. It’s a little too complicated,
Ever pushed a PR, feeling pretty good about it, then watched it sit there? And sit there. And sit there. Days go by…. By the time someone finally reviews it,
AI makes writing code 10× faster. Shipping got 100× harder. The first wave of generative AI tools transformed how developers write code. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf made generation orders
SonarQube has been the default static analysis tool for so long that for many teams, it’s practically part of the furniture. It’s powerful, it supports a ton of languages, and