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1. Fix your flaky tests first
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-05
2. Code reviews as a tool to build capability
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-02

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1. jefffoster · 2026-07-28

   I’ve been thinking about this too. There’s this notion of variety popularized by cybernetics folks a long time ago. Variety is like the state space of the system. Then there’s a law that says “only variety absorbs variety”. So if a method has high variety then it must have an equally complex implementation to handle the variety. When there is a mismatch it means that either the method has parameters that aren’t usef…

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2. mooreds · 2025-07-27

   Submitted Measuring Engineering as a story · 37 points

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3. kiyanwang · 2025-07-20

   Submitted Accountability as a story · 4 points

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4. PretzelFisch · 2026-03-02

   Submitted The Root Cause Fallacy as a story · 3 points

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5. avivby · 2025-12-16

   Submitted The cost of producing code is approaching zero as a story · 3 points

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6. mooreds · 2025-12-08

   Submitted The Overton Window as a story · 3 points

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7. mooreds · 2025-06-13

   Submitted The Viable Systems Model as a story · 3 points

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8. mooreds · 2025-04-25

   Submitted Things Traffic Flow can teach us about software development as a story · 3 points

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9. mooreds · 2025-04-14

   Submitted Things Queueing Theory can teach us about software development as a story · 3 points

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10. mooreds · 2026-04-13

    Submitted Nineteen Features, Zero Architecture as a story · 2 points

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11. PretzelFisch · 2026-04-07

    Submitted Cheap Code means more Governance as a story · 2 points

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12. mooreds · 2025-11-25

    Submitted Hotelling's Law as a story · 2 points

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13. mooreds · 2025-09-23

    Submitted Quick Questions for Better Strategy as a story · 2 points

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14. mooreds · 2026-09-21

    Submitted Entropy Is Spare Capacity as a story · 1 points

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15. mooreds · 2026-08-10

    Submitted Training was just a side effect as a story · 1 points

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16. ColinEberhardt · 2026-08-09

    Submitted Software Engineering is dead (again) as a story · 1 points

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17. PretzelFisch · 2026-06-01

    Submitted The Spam Economy Comes to Work as a story · 1 points

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18. avivby · 2026-01-05

    Submitted From Correctness to Recoverability as a story · 1 points

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19. mooreds · 2025-10-14

    Submitted Exploration vs. Exploitation as a story · 1 points

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20. mooreds · 2025-10-01

    Submitted Authority Gradients as a story · 1 points

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21. ohjeez · 2025-09-24

    Submitted Code reviews as a tool to build capability as a story · 1 points

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22. mooreds · 2025-09-02

    Submitted Code reviews as a tool to build capability as a story · 1 points

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23. mooreds · 2025-05-29

    Submitted Supporting your mid-level engineers as a story · 1 points

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24. mooreds · 2025-05-15

    Submitted Leverage as a story · 1 points

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25. mooreds · 2025-03-22

    Submitted Changing Culture as a story · 1 points

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26. kiyanwang · 2025-03-16

    Submitted Fix your flaky tests first as a story · 1 points

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27. mooreds · 2025-03-11

    Submitted How should you use AI? as a story · 1 points

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28. mooreds · 2025-03-05

    Submitted Fix your flaky tests first as a story · 1 points

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