The Handcrafted Code Manifesto: Choosing Human Intelligence Over Hype
A community-driven declaration that manual software development is a superior, enduring practice powered by human intelligence.
Software Quality
The practice of maintaining high standards in software development, focusing on reliability, performance, and user experience while resisting the entropy of organizational growth.
Reading List
ImpactGate: Measuring and Gating Structural Decay in Code
ImpactGate is a metrics-driven tool that measures and gates the structural decay of code changes to prevent the growth of complex 'god-classes' and technical debt.
Opus 5 vs. SlopCodeBench: The Struggle for AI Code Maintainability
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Even frontier models like Opus 5 struggle to maintain code quality and avoid regressions when requirements are revealed incrementally over time.
Quality Over Process in the Age of Fast Software
Modern software development prioritizes high-level oversight and speed, valuing the integrity of the final product over the manual process of creation.
The Scale Paradox: Why Software Quality Fails as Companies Grow
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Software quality is a fragile state of perfection that is naturally eroded by organizational growth and must be protected through small-team focus and dedicated leadership.