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10 Reasons your Software Sucks! (and what to do about it)

on YouTube 26m
Talkat Commit Your Code 2025 Β· 2025-09-25..09-26Β· [engineering-leadership]

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name:Caleb Jenkins
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/-T5dbNBMCY4
slides:none on file

summary

Ten concrete fixes not vague philosophy: use Git/GitHub rather than SharePoint or OneDrive, adopt a clear branching strategy (trunk based or Gitflow), and run automated CI pipelines with unit/integration tests (TDD/BDD where practical). Treat passwords and all input as dangerous, add security in layers and consult OWASP Top 10, watch for emerging LLM emoji injection attacks, and optimize UX β€” adding continue as guest yields a 45% increase in purchases. Above all, automate all the things.

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chapters (9)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:05Engineering discipline
  3. 3:10Software engineering practices
  4. 5:34User vs developer experience
  5. 9:06Clean code patterns
  6. 14:25Secure code practices
  7. 18:02Source control pipelines
  8. 21:32Automated tests CI
  9. 24:21Growth and learning

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