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Dead Code: Fear-driven Everything

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Jared Norman interviewed me after he wrote about the order in which programmers choose to write their code and I offered this response. In this episode, we touch on this before launching into a more expansive discussion on why the agile movement fizzled out and what we can reclaim from a developer workflow perspective now that we're experiencing our first major market upheaval since then with the rise of coding agents.

Appearing on: Dead Code
Published on: 2025-09-09
Original URL: https://shows.acast.com/dead-code/episodes/fear-driven-everything-with-justin-searls

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