A team I was talking to had built a code-review skill in Claude Code. It looked good: a careful prompt, a set of rules, and examples. Then it shipped a PR with a nested recursive loop inside another recursive loop. Cyclomatic complexity any static analyser (PMD, radon, ESLint’s complexity rule)...

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Using AI coding assistants to introduce, automate, and evolve quality checks in your project. I have talked about teams needing to have a world class developer experience as a pre-requisite for a well functioning team. When teams lack such a setup, the most common response is a lack of time...

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Verbosity of Java Java is a verbose language. No one disputes it. Despite the clunky nature of the language syntax, it still is the language of choice in most enterprises. If you work in the services industry or are a technology consultant, chances are that you have to work with...

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What is Unit Testing? Unit testing is all about focusing on one element of the software at a time. This unit is called the often called the ‘System Under Test’ (refer Mocks Aren’t Stubbs). In order to test only one unit at a time, all other units need to not...

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