Category Archives: Editorial

Who is Irresponsible?

Posted on April 15, 2026 by way0utwest

There was a post on X recently from a founder in the EU about an engineer using Claude and ChatGPT to build a feature. I am not sure how true these posts are or if they are designed to just … Continue reading →

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Poor Names

Posted on April 13, 2026 by way0utwest

It’s always interesting to me when I give product feedback to engineers at Redgate on their demos. Quite often they’ve built a feature that uses AdventureWorks or Pagila (PostgreSQL) or some other well known schema to evaluate how their particular … Continue reading →

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Acting with Confidence

Posted on April 10, 2026 by way0utwest

Recently, I saw a graph about making decisions that showed the impact of both reversibility and consequences. Here is an example of such a graph and how one might approach decisions. If things are easily reversible or have a low … Continue reading →

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Barely Reviewed Code

Posted on April 8, 2026 by way0utwest

Years ago I was giving a talk on software development and asked the audience how long it takes to review a PR that has 10 lines changed. Answers were in the minutes to tens of minutes range. I then asked … Continue reading →

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