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New comment by pftg in "Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory"

pftg — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:09:44 +0000

The problem of handoffs makes this work far from cheap.

And tests are not dumb work. TDD uses them to establish clarity, helping people understand what they will deliver rather than running chaotic experiments.

Highly paid people should be able to figure out how to optimize and make code easy to change, rather than ignoring technical debt and making others pay for it.

QA is just postponing fixing the real problem - hard to change the code.

New comment by pftg in "Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory"

pftg — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:03:17 +0000

I cannot believe the excuse for why shift-left QA is “not working” is that Amazon hires developers who can’t learn basic testing skills that QA engineers picked up in three months. If developers can’t write valid code for tests, that’s on the organization, not on the practice.

The author forgot to mention the costs of handoffs, which paid off all those tiny learning investments.

Shift-left has over 30 years of proof as one of the most effective ways to build reliable software.

P.S. This isn’t an ACM article; it’s a strongly opinionated post based on personal experience.

P.P.S. I'm not against QA, but make them as bug/quality hunters, instead of toil.

New comment by pftg in "Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language"

pftg — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:58:15 +0000

You can easily build your own clear, simple DSL with Minitest, Pytest, or JUnit - no overthinking needed. Engineers can whip up more readable and reliable tests quickly. Since only engineers are writing tests, there's no need for unnecessary complications.

New comment by pftg in "Soviet Shoe Factory Principle"

pftg — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:23:01 +0000

This reminds me of a brilliant Soviet satirical cartoon that illustrated the same principle with hats instead of shoes: https://youtu.be/gSpjDi2BrQk?si=CtJwQTHkm0HfNrxx

New comment by pftg in "Dependency management fatigue, or why I forever ditched React for Go+Htmx+Templ"

pftg — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:27:36 +0000

React just doesn't meet our needs, and switching from server-side rendering to it wouldn't really benefit us.

New comment by pftg in "Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP"

pftg — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:10:59 +0000

Yeah, I believe Sinatra https://sinatrarb.com/ or Padrino https://padrinorb.com/ inspired Hono. So you are back to Ruby ;)

New comment by pftg in "Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?"

pftg — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:26:59 +0000

CodePilot delivers the most effective performance for its cost.

After trying other options like Continue + deepseek-v2, I found that the expense of hosting a bigger local version of LLM is too high to match CodePilot's performance.

Played with Continue + Yi-Coder too - requires a lot of time to clarify requests to generate valid code.

I made the decision to stick with CodePilot.

New comment by pftg in "Transforming Titans: A Novel Journey of Agile Leadership in Outsourcing"

pftg — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:03:20 +0000

Some time back, I was tasked with sharing my thoughts on sustaining an out-staffed venture with outsourced cartage services and onboarding 200 to 400 developers within 3 years. What started as a blog post has now evolved into a novel-like narrative, adding a new layer of depth and intrigue to the topic.

It was enjoyable and challenging to intertwine tech tips and life experiences into a novel-esque format. I successfully expressed complex and technical concepts, making the writing exciting and witty.

Please give me at least 100 words of your opinion. Did you find the article interesting and clear enough?

Your feedback is invaluable to me. I want you to know that your critical assessment is welcome.

Transforming Titans: A Novel Journey of Agile Leadership in Outsourcing

pftg — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:03:20 +0000

Article URL: https://jetthoughts.com/blog/transforming-titans-outsourcing-odyssey-leadership-agile/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896681

Points: 9

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New comment by pftg in "The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day"

pftg — Thu, 09 May 2024 07:32:23 +0000

Great story, nicely written. The goal is to show off ;) But really nice to read.

Definitely, this is a bad example and precedent to build toxic and non-cooperative environments. And instead of solving the issue it make it worth.

New comment by pftg in "Unit Tests Considered Harmful"

pftg — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:24:00 +0000

Clickbait sharing the issue but related with unit tests but mocks ;(

New comment by pftg in "A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup"

pftg — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:20:12 +0000

Yep! RubyMine is like Ubuntu, and VSCode is Arch Linux!

New comment by pftg in "A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup"

pftg — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:19:04 +0000

> find out that not having types causes lots of problems

Yeah, it's hard to find a decent team, so we work with less experienced guys who need a lot of safeguards like static types ;)

Ruby solves this problem: you do not need big teams, so you are more comfortable finding better developers. Ruby allows to reduce team 5x.

New comment by pftg in "A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup"

pftg — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:16:19 +0000

No, it's an additional tool only for big legacy projects! TDD is much simpler and safer.

New comment by pftg in "A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup"

pftg — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:13:22 +0000

> Using VS Code as a Ruby on Rails editor shouldn't be so hard!

However, I personally prefer RubyMine since it comes with everything out of the box.

I only use VS Code as a text editor replacement.

New comment by pftg in "Goodbye, clean code (2020)"

pftg — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:51:47 +0000

First version was cleaner, and new code is, obviously, not clean at all, because it requires much more energy to learn then first one. Interesting that author misguide DRY code with Clean code

New comment by pftg in "Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers"

pftg — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:42:08 +0000

Nice list. Some good and some of them are contr-productive like promoting of use of preloading and calc in memory.

New comment by pftg in "Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr"

pftg — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:41:21 +0000

There is an irony here. Because in 2010 Bitcoin said the same that transactions should be cheap and fast, and now you see that they have failed to deliver that ;(

New comment by pftg in "A step by step guide on how to become a DevOps engineer"

pftg — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:31:40 +0000

missed process part. devops is not just automatization

New comment by pftg in "A step by step guide on how to become a DevOps engineer"

pftg — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:30:45 +0000

great reply