The quality of AI-generated code has less to do with the model and more to do with what you feed it: taste, judgment, and well-defined constraints. Hear how senior developers at Test Double approach agentic coding in a coffee time webinar April 22, 2 pm ET//11 am PT. We'll share approaches, workflows, and harnesses we're using, and discuss why constraints are so important.

Register for the webinar: https://link.testdouble.com/7ad53f

Distributed energy management at scale requires a holistic approach.

Mission: Real-time platform processing gigabytes/sec across thousands of electrical grid assets for sustainable power

Fix:
→ Embedded partnership
→ Elixir/Elm expertise
→ Distributed, fault-tolerant architecture
→ Automated testing frameworks
→ Team mentoring & process improvement

Results:
→ Massive scale
→ Market leadership position
→ Successful acquisition by Generac

Staff Consultant Brian Hughes shares an 80/20 rule for test coverage in your software application, along with practical tips.

https://youtu.be/uD5VRFQvFPc?si=Rs1biT4eZdWyPd6L

🔧 Legacy code: rewrite or refactor?

Key factors:
- Security risks?
- Framework support?
- Team understanding of features/usage?
- Risk tolerance?
- Team's ability to maintain existing vs new system?

Pro tip: There is no magic answer. It's always situational.

We've seen incremental refactors that unlocked business value and speed super quick, and also glacially slow refactors.

We've seen big bang rewrites turn into snail's-pace, expensive disasters, and also super successful iterations.

Remote work reality check: Scheduled meetings build efficiency. Unstructured time builds trust.

Our consultant Tyler Sloane discovered that "coffee and code" sessions - open video calls with no agenda - create the serendipitous connections that make remote teams actually work.

His approach for virtual relationship building: https://link.testdouble.com/e704e9

Slow investigations, inconclusive root causes, and recurring bugs are observability problems. But fixing them isn't primarily a tooling problem.
Gabriel Côté-Carrier spent months turning observability from a team pain point into a genuine advantage. The technical work was only half of it.

https://link.testdouble.com/1b7431

"In a world where every meeting has an agenda, sometimes the most valuable thing we can offer is purposeless presence."

Tyler Sloane's take on building real connections in remote work is worth the read: https://link.testdouble.com/e704e9

Python devs, is this familiar: Your team writes beautiful snake_case code, but every external API wants camelCase.

You could:
- Pollute your codebase with non-Pythonic naming
- Write manual conversion layers
- Live with the friction

Or you could use Pydantic's field aliases to solve this once and for all.

New guide: How to handle non-Pythonic naming conventions seamlessly 👇
https://link.testdouble.com/e357d1

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