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There’s a peculiar cycle in tech where something new arrives, and suddenly everyone who isn’t using it feels personally attacked. GraphQL arrived about a decade ago, and we’ve been watching the echo chamber ever since. “REST is dead,” they said. “GraphQL is the future,” they proclaimed. Meanwhile, REST APIs quietly powered 90% of the internet and went about their business unbothered. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not here to tell you GraphQL is bad....

The Refactoring Paradox Nobody Talks About You’ve heard it a thousand times: “Write unit tests! They’re your safety net! They give you confidence to refactor!” And you know what? That’s absolutely true. Except when it’s not. There’s a peculiar moment in every developer’s career when they discover that their test suite—the very thing that was supposed to liberate them—has become a pair of concrete boots. You need to refactor a class, extract a method, reorganize your module structure, and suddenly half your tests start breaking....

The Uncomfortable Truth Nobody Wants to Hear Let me start with something that will make your Twitter timeline combust: junior developers writing tests is like letting someone learn to drive by driving a school bus during rush hour. Sure, they’ll probably survive, and maybe even learn something. But is that really the best use of everyone’s time and sanity? I can already hear the collective gasp from the test-driven development zealots, the agile evangelists, and the “everyone should code review everything” crowd....

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In medieval times, lords ruled their fiefdoms with an iron fist. They had absolute authority over their territories, decided who could enter, what could be built, and who could leave. Fast forward to the modern software engineering era, and you might find something eerily similar lurking in your codebase—except instead of castles and moats, we have pull requests, code reviews, and firmly guarded repositories. Code ownership is supposed to be a good thing....