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Writing about developer experience beyond the tooling debates—because your best engineers aren't leaving over build times, they're leaving over death by a […]

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Max Kanat-Alexander breaks down why cycle time, focus, and cognitive load determine whether your engineering team thrives or burns out

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Three Forces That Quietly Shape How Developers Work
Max Kanat-Alexander breaks down why cycle time, focus, and cognitive load determine whether your engineering team thrives or burns out
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December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Why developers are slower with AI tools despite believing they're faster and what actually works

https://blog.pragmaticdx.com/p/the-ai-feedback-loop-that-isnt-working

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The AI Feedback Loop That Isn't Working Yet
Why developers are slower with AI tools despite believing they're faster and what actually works
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November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The three-layer system, exact scripts, and implementation playbook for protecting your focus when everyone's convinced their request is the exception.

https://blog.pragmaticdx.com/p/how-to-actually-protect-focus-time

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How to Actually Protect Focus Time
The three-layer system, exact scripts, and implementation playbook for protecting your focus when everyone's convinced their request is the exception.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Success isn’t about pushing developers harder, it’s about shaping the system around them. When doing the right thing feels effortless, excellence becomes inevitable.

https://blog.pragmaticdx.com/p/make-the-easy-path-the-right-path

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Make the Easy Path the Right Path
Success isn’t about pushing developers harder, it’s about shaping the system around them. When doing the right thing feels effortless, excellence becomes inevitable.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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What's the most ridiculous workaround you've built because fixing the actual problem would require approvals from 6 different teams?

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November 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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What's your team's unspoken rule for when documentation is 'good enough' vs when it needs to be perfect? Or does everything just stay in draft mode forever?

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November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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What's the programming language you love that nobody else seems to care about anymore?

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November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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How do you explain to non-technical stakeholders that 'just add a button' is actually a 2-week project touching 8 different services?

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November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Your junior developer asks why we don't just rewrite everything in [hot new framework]. What's your response that doesn't crush their enthusiasm but also acknowledges reality?

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November 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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When you discover a critical security vulnerability in production, what's your incident response? Fix first, tell people later, or panic immediately?

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November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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How many layers of abstraction does your codebase have? At what point does 'clean architecture' become 'I need a map to find where anything actually happens'?

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November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Your PR has been approved but you spot a bug right before merging. Do you fix it in a new commit, start over, or just merge and fix it later?

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November 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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When documentation says 'deprecated' but provides no alternative or migration path, is that helpful or just mean?

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November 16, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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What's your strategy when you're 90% done with a feature and realize your entire approach was wrong? Start over or hack it together and refactor later (aka never)?

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November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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How do you keep learning new technologies when you barely have time to master what you're already using?

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November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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You inherit a 5000-line function that nobody understands but somehow runs the entire business. Do you refactor it or treat it like an archaeological artifact that must never be disturbed?

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November 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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When you finally solve a problem that's been haunting you for days, do you feel accomplished or just annoyed it took that long?

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November 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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When your test suite takes 2 hours to run, do you actually wait for it or just push and pray? What's your acceptable CI/CD wait time before you start cutting corners?

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November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Your tech lead wants to adopt a new technology because it's interesting, not because it solves a problem. How do you push back without seeming negative?

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November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What's your team's policy on Friday deployments? Forbidden, encouraged, or 'deploy and flee'?

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November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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What's your ratio of time spent coding new features vs maintaining/debugging existing features? Is it what you expected when you became a developer?

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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Your error message says 'Something went wrong.' Thanks. Super helpful. What's the most useless error message you've encountered that made debugging 10x harder?

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November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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What's your record for longest period of uninterrupted coding time? Mine is pathetically low. Are we all just glorified context-switchers now?

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November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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What's the most 'enterprise' thing about your codebase? XML configuration files? Factory factory factories?

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November 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM