Several of my AI workflows need to do similar things: read a ticket and its requirements, understand the relevant code, check the working environment, load company conventions, pla...
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A queue is growing, exports are waiting, and the service appears to be running. There are several places to look: queue counts, consumers, connections, routing and application logs...
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A requirements document gives us something to build against. There is still a planning step between that document and picking up the first issue: deciding how to divide the work, w...
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A planning conversation can leave us with a much clearer idea of what to build. But the decisions are still spread across questions, answers and corrections. Before breaking the wo...
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An idea can sound clear until someone asks what should happen when it fails, who should be allowed to use it, or what we actually need in the first version. Those questions can cha...
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A useful development workflow often contains more company knowledge than it first appears to. The tracker team, engineering conventions and the place to look for logs can all end u...
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Sometimes the next step in an investigation is to look at the database. Has a record changed status? Are there other records in the same state? How many were created during the per...
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Logs contain a lot of useful information, but connecting it takes work. Whether investigating an alert, checking unexpected behavior during development or following up on a reporte...
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Asking an AI assistant to implement a task leaves quite a few things implied. Which requirements should it follow? How should it break up the change? What needs testing, and what s...
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A pull request has come back with review comments. Some point to bugs, some suggest a different approach, and others need a conversation before anything should change. Working thro...
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AI can be useful in code reviews, but it is easy to end up at either extreme: dismissing it entirely or accepting its findings without checking them. I think there is a practical m...
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Writing tickets is probably not the most exciting part of being a developer. You already know what needs to change, but you still need to open the tracker, write the description, a...
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