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I used to avoid adding telemetry because it felt like tedious busywork. Now with Claude handling the OpenTelemetry boilerplate, I'm instrumenting everything.

AI agents work better when given appropriate context and guardrails.

I've been using Claude Code to offload tedious parts of platform engineering: dependency reviews, generating test PRs, dependency migrations, and project cleanup.

I used to block out weeks for tooling migrations. Now I let Claude Code run in the background, check in when it's done, and pair with it to understand what changed.

Frontend technical debt doesn't just slow down developers. It undermines your entire business through user attrition, legal risks, and revenue loss. Here's how to spot and communicate these hidden costs.

How I used Conductor and Dependabot AI review to streamline my team's dependency update workflow — and how a colleague turned it into a GitHub Action

If everyone's shipping faster with AI, nobody has an advantage. The real edge is platform work.

Instead of starting a migration by rewriting code, set up backstops first. A lint rule that prevents new code from using the old pattern stops the problem from growing, even if the migration stalls.

How I'm using Claude Code to build a full-stack app while maintaining architectural understanding

Learn how I built a Claude Code multi-agent orchestrator that coordinates specialized AI coding agents through a 6-phase workflow with distributed tracing