Your Code Reviews are unknowingly silencing your Intern and Junior Engineers
I recently noticed a disturbing pattern with one of our most promising Intern/Junior Engineers. Month 1: They were shipping features daily. Fast. Hungry. Month 2: The velocity slowed down. Month 3: Silence began.. They hadn't opened a Pull Request in 2/3 days, even though their tasks were marked 'In Progress'. I assumed the worst: Burnout? Disengagement? Maybe they are overemployed? I pulled...

Code Review Reality: Are Your Seniors Architects or Just 'Expensive Nags'?
Senior Reviews: Architecture Help or 'Premium Nagging'? Yesterday, I wrote about the "Friday Merge" ghost story the pain of waiting days just to get code shipped. (Thanks for the great discussion on that) But today I want to talk about the awkward social friction that kills team dynamics. The "Bad Guy" Fatigue We hire Senior Engineers to build systems, not to babysit syntax. Yet, ask any Senior...
The Friday Merge: A Ghost Story (And How AI Exorcised It)
Hey Product Hunt community, (Picture this)Itâs 4:30 PM on a Friday. Youâve just cracked the logic for that complex auth-flow refactor. Youâve been in the zone for six hours straight headphones on, coffee empty, absolute flow state. You run the tests. Green. You check the linter. Clean. You push the commit. You open the Pull Request, feeling that rush of endorphins. Youâre done. Youâre ready to...
[Proposal] Bridge Memory: Safely âborrowâ context across projects
TL;DR Bridge Memory is a feature idea for Claude (Anthropicâs AI assistant) that lets devs temporarily pull in read-only context (âMemory Chipsâ) from other projects for a single threadâso you can reuse standards, snippets, and runbooks without leaking data or polluting memories. What it is * Memory Chips (ephemeral): Add chips like Project A â Auth Patterns or Project X â Incident Runbook...





