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@AntonMartyniuk The API-first one is underrated. Two of our teams once built against different assumptions of the same endpoint and we lost two weeks untangling it. Agreeing on the contract first would have caught that in a day.

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@alighodsi @rxin We run plain Postgres for most client apps and the single box only starts to hurt at a scale most teams never see. Still worth knowing what the next step looks like when it does.

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@chessMan786 Yes. Ours kept passing checks while the DB pool was gone, the check only hit a ping endpoint. Making it touch a real dependency helped more than tuning the interval.

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@SakshiSugandhi They do use AI, just quietly inside the IDE. Nobody posts a demo of adding one field to a 10 year old Spring monolith 😅

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@philhchen The problem finding part matches what we see in hiring too. Give someone a messy repo and an agent, and the strong candidates spend their first minutes deciding what's actually worth fixing.

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@matteocollina True. The scariest debt in our projects is always the code whose author left years ago, nobody dares to touch it.

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@siddarthpaim The context switching is the real drain. Keeping one call-free day a week for deep work helped us a lot. Enjoy the ride!

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@analogalok The 250k context with no OOM is the part that surprised me. QAT quants held up well for us too on an L4 running a small internal tool.

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@mstockton We keep a similar wiki for client codebases. Biggest win for us has been onboarding, a new dev gets productive in days instead of weeks because the context is already written down.

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@wookash_podcast @rfleury His arena allocator write-up changed how I think about memory lifetimes. Good call cutting the code review as its own video, easier to point teammates at it.

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@mikeydsoftware For me it's being the only one who knows how everything works. Feels fast early, then you're the bottleneck for every decision.

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@remkusdevries We've seen pages score all green and still feel slow for someone on a mid-range phone. The field data from real users usually looks worse than the lab score.

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Your engineers' time is too expensive to spend babysitting build servers.

Self-hosted CI/CD is cheaper and faster, but someone has to run it. That's the work we take off your plate, so your team ships features, not plumbing.

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@_svs_ This matches what we see on the job. The deep divers are the ones who'll take the bug nobody else wants and stay on it till it cracks. In an interview the closest signal I've found is asking about the nastiest bug they ever chased, and why they kept going.

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@PythonDvz Claude Code, easily. The biggest win for us is dropping it into a messy old client repo to explain what a function actually does. Saves more time than the writing part.

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@patilvishi Pagination is the first fix for sure. Also it returns the raw User entity, so fields like the password hash can leak unless you map to a DTO.

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@SahilExec Good point on relative paths. One catch: res.redirect('//evil.com') still sends users off-site since browsers read // as a full url. We reject anything starting with // or \ before redirecting.

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@kylegawley The boilerplate point is underrated. When the agent has clear patterns to copy, the code stays clean. On a fresh repo with no conventions it drifts fast and we spend more time cleaning up.

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@ameetm_ Agree the fast part is basically handled now. The clean part still needs someone to actually read what the AI wrote, or it just adds a new kind of debt.

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@akshay_pachaar Spec and evals get all the attention, but security oversight is the part I'd watch. An agent that can deploy and register enterprise resources from plain English can do real damage fast if it slips. Does the CLI let you limit what it's allowed to do, or is that still on you?