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

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

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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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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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For a recent project, I needed a small, representative sample of a large table. Here's the sampling approach I landed on.

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If you want a coding agent to implement screen and interaction designs reliably , the first step is building a solid design system in code.

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If you're leading an agentic development project and feel like it's taking some time to get your bearings, you aren't alone.