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At the centre Twenty years of DevOps had one goal, a single feedback loop from writing code to that code in production, and it failed. Holds CMCharity Majors Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote. Holds CHChip Huyen
• Similar wording A sense of achievement in software survives writing almost none of the code yourself. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Version control is the one thing every traditional engineer wishes their old field had. Holds HWHillel Wayne
• Similar wording Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Loops belong on codebase quality, not on shipping the features users want; we read all of the code, because program design is what decides whether a codebase stays changeable. Holds DHDex Horthy
• Similar wording Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait. Holds KBKent Beck
• Similar wording The valuable form of loop engineering is a slow loop — a nightly cron job that fixes one thing and opens one pull request — not a redesign of your whole infrastructure around agents. Holds DHDex Horthy
• Similar wording Software developers spent thirty years automating other people's industries away, so they should not expect sympathy now that it is their turn. Holds KHKelsey Hightower