What's the simplest guardrail you've used that had the biggest impact?

The AI migration and the TRAPS Model

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What's the simplest guardrail you've used that had the biggest impact? 

Sometimes the most effective guardrail isn't the most sophisticated one


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Stop with cleaning code, first make it work! — Demi Van Malcot

Recently my team has taken on the arduous task of migrating one of our oldest applciations from weblogic to containers. A task that is proving more difficult then expected. With tickets stuck for several weeks and senior devs falling sick, frustration ran high this week. 


A good product is one that gets used and cleaned up over time — Rosie Sherry

We have to make sure keep everything working and improving it. Often this referred this as how important cleaning up the code is. Clean code is a thing, with lots of ideas around it.


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