Lightning talk from Jason Wilson

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Practical fixes beat abstract promises: add colored bars to control panels so nonexperts can spot problems at a glance, use type systems so front end and back end fail fast against each other, and replace unreadable Gherkin handoffs with maintainable unit tests that catch analytics regressions. The concrete benefit shows up in onboarding time — commonly cited as six months to get comfortable with a codebase — and in fewer surprise outages and wrong data.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:08Burnout to human factors
3. 2:15Ship navigation safety lessons
4. 4:44Visual cues for systems
5. 6:29Frontend-backend type systems
6. 7:13Readable tests for teams
7. 8:59Reducing onboarding time with better documentation
8. 10:05Final thoughts on clarity

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