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Today's guest is Adam Tornhill! Adam is the author of the popular book Your Code as a Crime Scene, and he's the founder of CodeScene.
With Adam, we discussed:
His unique insights about technical debt and code quality, which come from his study of forensic psychology.
How static analysis is not enough to understand code health and why you need to look into version control history to understand hotspots, change distribution and bus factor.
How AI changes, or maybe does not change, how we should write code.
🥇 Interview Summary
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Here is the agenda for today:
🔍 From Psychology to Code Analysis
🕵️ Why Static Analysis Isn't Enough
📊 The Business Impact of Code Quality
🚌 The Bus Factor Problem
🤖 AI and Code Quality
Let's dive in 👇
