Pedro Nagatomo
Developer Backend
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Junior developers ask how to write the function. Senior developers ask whether the function should exist.
Half the codebases I've inherited have logic that technically works, solving a problem the business stopped caring about two reorgs ago. Nobody removed it because removing...
"AI reviewed this PR" gets said the same way "it's insured" gets said, like the phrase closes the question of risk on its own.
It doesn't. AI review genuinely catches a real category of problems: syntax slips, inconsistent naming, obvious gaps in error handling. That coverage is...
Would you rather inherit a messy dataset with accurate numbers, or a clean-looking dataset where a few numbers are quietly wrong?
I'd take messy every time. Messy at least announces itself, duplicate rows, inconsistent formats, obvious gaps. A clean-looking spreadsheet with a...
A "single source of truth" is a phrase everyone uses and almost nobody has. Usually there are three spreadsheets, two of which are stale, and a dashboard pulling from whichever one someone remembered to update last.
Fixing that isn't a bigger dashboard, it's deciding, on paper,...
Tech layoffs and AI hiring are happening in the same companies, sometimes the same quarter.
That's not really a contradiction once you look closer. The roles disappearing tend to be repetitive, high-volume, and easy to spec. The roles opening tend to require judgment about...