Three Good Links: 03 Feb 2025

Pressure to Merge: How often does the team discard a set of changes and go on to solve the problem a different way because of the discussion in the code review? The answer should be more often than “never” and less often than “usually”.

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products: As we move software products using generative AI technology from proof-of-concepts into production systems, we are uncovering a range of common patterns.

Subjectivity in productivity: Precision. Certainty. Specificity. Everyone wants to know exactly what and exactly when, and they want a statistic attached to corroborate it. But numbers are rarely answers — just as projects are rarely math problems.