I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on LinkedIn recently that make the same claim: speed of writing code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The real bottleneck was always thinking, choosing the right thing to build, understanding the problem. AI has just made that painfully obvious. I partly agree, but the framing is […]
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Fairly regularly, I see advice on LinkedIn and other platforms that one should “check one’s automated test scripts regularly” so they can be “kept up to date”. This advice always baffles me. How are these automated tests used if they need an intentional action to be checked for up-to-dateness? If you’re not using your automated
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The main question here is:
Is there a fundamental, qualitative difference between one method over the other that makes one objectively better than the other?
You’ve probably heard it countless times: “Automation is key in DevOps.” But let’s clear something up. It’s not just about testing. Automation, my friends, is the secret sauce that takes the human error out of those oh-so-tedious tasks and cranks up the quality of your software. 1. Understanding DevOps and Automation Listen up: DevOps isn’t
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