Francesco Barbera

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I have a free Notion account, without AI. Today, to work on multiple pages, I downloaded some of them and used Codex to interact. It was too manual, but it was only the first step. The next one will be to use the MCP.

Faramir mode today. Benchmarking models, demanding sources, refusing AI without a clear ROI.

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Hey @PanasonicEurope, I think it is time to update your support chatbot. Mattia keeps asking me if he answers my question without answering my question🙃. AI is here, don't miss the train.

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@valentinajemuov I’m not sure I agree. I don’t see a real tradeoff between speed and quality. Writing tests lets me skip calling the API to prove it works. For me, quality always wins and the blue area will always lag behind the other.

- No tests or poor tests → no protection when making a change - Unreadable code → hard to make any change (update code or add new feature) With bad technical practices, software maintenance costs sky-rocket. Join 4,200+ engineers journal.optivem.com #tdd #cicd #optivem

A problem I see with using AI is hoping it can do what we ourselves can’t. The first goal should be to automate, not demand things more complex than we can manage.

As developers, we’re the only professionals who can tell customers: ‘You can have quality or speed, but not both.’ I don’t dine at starred restaurants often, but I doubt they ask if you want to eat well or within a couple of hours.

How did I use AI today? I talked with chatGPT, telling how a 1 to 1 I had went. Then I asked for advice and to summarise everything.

The web’s complexity is real. We should aim for the simplest solutions, not turn projects into dev playgrounds. I appreciate this @croloris post. kristoff.it/blog/static-si…

@valentinajemuov @cupac_jelena And what about property based testing? Is it not a valid alternative?

@cupac_jelena Exactly, mutation testing is the only metric that tells us whether our unit test suite is protecting us against regression bugs. Code coverage can't do tell us that.

❗ Code coverage is USELESS coverage. ✅ Mutation coverage is REAL coverage. Code coverage doesn't care if you have zero or meaningless assertions. Mutation testing - you can’t get away with this. Join 3,900+ engineers: journal.optivem.com #tdd #softwaredevelopment

Couldn’t agree more with this post on the end of copy-paste Agile. After years of struggling with Scrum, it’s time we go back to good old Agile principles. The Era of Copy-Paste Agile Is Over mdalmijn.com/p/the-era-of-c…

@cupac_jelena If yes, is a database really another part of the application you have to integrate? For example, a repository class can only be used with a database. So, in my opinion, that is not an integration.

@cupac_jelena So you call a test that touches a database an integration test, right?

🚫 Unit tests should NOT touch any I/O. ✅ If your code depends on I/O e.g. calling a database or REST API, break down the dependency and substitute it with test doubles in the test. Practice TDD step-by-step journal.optivem.com/p/tdd-in-legac… #tdd #softwareengineering #optivem

I’ve found that sometimes duplicating code is better than pushing logic into random places just to reduce line count. Prioritising clarity and maintainability over brevity has made a big difference in the projects.

💻 Il PUG Sondrio torna con la nuova stagione di incontri su tech e cultura nel mondo dell’IT. 🍕🍻 La ricetta è quella consolidata: si parte con pizza e birra, per poi proseguire con una serie di lightning talks. 📅 Ci vediamo lunedì 30 settembre presso la sede di Webtek. meetup.com/pug-sondrio/ev… #Meetup via @Meetup