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engineering practices

The Facade

Ajey Gore

A film set survives exactly one thing: the shot. The trouble starts when someone decides to move in. If you’ve ever been on a studio backlot, you’ve walked down a street that doesn’t exist. A row of perfect storefronts: the saloon, the bank, the sheriff’s office. A weathered sign that took...

The Solo Climb

Ajey Gore

An agent shipped something technically correct and completely wrong. That was when the word "harness" stopped being abstract for me. We all watched Free Solo. If you haven’t: Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan — three thousand feet of vertical granite in Yosemite — without a rope. No protection....

The Tests We Skipped

Ajey Gore

The argument I lost for twenty years is the argument the industry is now winning, by accident, through the back door. A position I held for twenty years For most of my career I argued for writing tests. Not quietly. In standups, in team rooms, in conference talks, in 1:1s with engineers I was...