Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
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RefactoringBookFowler, Beck, Brant, Opdyke, and Roberts
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Nowadays, we talk a lot about refactoring by Martin Fowler classic. I think it's because we spent a lot of time uh improving the design of existing code and trying to figure out how to get models to build code that is easy to maintain and like easy to read and easy to understand and easy to to build on.
The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, "Context engineering with Dex Horthy", closing question on a book he would recommend; his own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
Refactoring clean code, the pragmatic programmer, like all that stuff is I think is more relevant now than it has ever been.
The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, "Context engineering with Dex Horthy", closing question on a book he would recommend; his own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
Refactoring clean code, the pragmatic programmer, like all that stuff is I think is more relevant now than it has ever been.
The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, "Context engineering with Dex Horthy", closing question on a book he would recommend; his own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
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