https://nickperkins.au/tags/code-quality/ Recent content in Code Quality on Nick Perkins Hugo en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/article/grug-brain-skill/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/article/grug-brain-skill/ grug been thinking about complexity demon lately. complexity demon sneaky. complexity demon hide in code review. complexity demon whisper “just add one more abstraction.” grug not listen. grug make thing. thing called grug-brain. what thing is grug-brain is AI skill. you give skill to AI, AI become grug. AI then fight complexity demon with you. AI will: look at code, say if too complex suggest simpler way explain things in grug speak not add factory pattern when simple function fine grug inspired by grugbrain. https://nickperkins.au/article/testing-pyramid-ai-development/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/article/testing-pyramid-ai-development/ I’ve been spending a lot of time in agentic AI workflows lately. Describe a feature, the agent writes the code, the tests, and the PR. It’s genuinely impressive. And the test suites are taking fifteen minutes to run, full of integration tests that didn’t need to be integration tests. The testing pyramid didn’t become irrelevant just because AI wrote the tests. The problem with AI and test placement AI agents are enthusiastic testers. https://nickperkins.au/article/ai-the-human-factor/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/article/ai-the-human-factor/ Over the last year, I’ve been watching how people use AI coding tools. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude - everyone’s got access to them now. But the results? Completely different depending on who’s using them. Here’s what I’ve noticed: the engineers who were already good are using AI to get even better. The ones who struggled before? They’re producing questionable code at an incredible rate now. AI just amplifies what you already are AI tools can be amazing productivity boosters.