My AI Code Reviews Ran 20 Rounds. Most of Them Had Nothing To Do With the Code.
Human understanding is still the bottleneck
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Battle-tested insights from building critical systems at Netflix, Twitter, and Comcast - edge routing, personalization infrastructure, and analytics serving millions in production.
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Stop listing options and start making arguments
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Please, Stop Talking About "Tradeoffs"
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I Built the World's Simplest Website Monitor with Claude Code in 1 Hour
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Netflix Gave Me 3 Months to Get Traffic to Europe. I Had No Idea What I Was Doing.
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Because being right isn't enough, unfortunately