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Pair Programming With AI Agents – How to Keep Learning While You Ship

AI agents make everyone’s code look the same. Pair programming keeps the judgment behind it growing. Here’s how to pair with an agent.

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What AI Can’t Do for Your Legacy System Migration

AI can speed up the mechanical work of a legacy system migration. Undocumented rules, decades of messy data, and user workarounds still take human judgment.

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If AI Can Build Anything, What’s Left for Developers to Create?

As AI becomes increasingly capable of building software, I find myself wondering how the craft of development might change.

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Should AI Really Kill the Code Review? Reflections at LDX3

Teams are struggling to review the volume of code AI is producing. Keep or kill the code review was the hot topic at LeadDev's LDX3 New York.

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Even with LLMs, Let’s Pair Together

Pair programming hasn’t been made redundant by LLMs. But using the robot sometimes makes human collaboration feel a bit less relevant.

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Concurrency Control: Your Aggregate Is Single-Threaded. Your Cluster Isn’t.

Concurrency control comes in two kinds, and most distributed-systems failures are a misassignment between them.

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Use Curiosity, Craft, and Care to Decide What AI Should Write

While working with a small team during an RDP engagement, I started paying attention to how much authorship we give AI over each artifact.

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2 Changes Made Our Azure Durable Functions 3X Faster

Two changes, 3x faster. The real lesson was that Durable fan-out is a two-part switch that only works when you flip both halves.

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Your Legacy Code Isn’t the Problem

When a legacy system is grinding your organization down, the instinct is to ask, "How do we modernize this code?" Wrong question.

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How PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus and How We Got It Back

Pull request (PR) reviews are one of those engineering practices that almost everyone agrees are important, albeit time-consuming.

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Write Documentation for Yourself, Not Others

It's easy to treat documents as a defense of a decision for someone else questioning you. But you need to re-frame it as a note to yourself.

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Error Handling vs. Hiding Errors

It's easy to gloss over error handling. Until something actually goes wrong, it's easier to log something vague and return success anyway.

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