Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

June 16, 2026

2× — Darragh Curran

What follows is a version of an email I sent our entire R&D team about an explicit goal and deliberate action we’ll take to become twice as productive through our embrace of AI.

Darragh Curran

Jun 13, 2025

Unit Tests Are Lying to You — Here's What Seniors Test Instead
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A passing test suite can be 100% green while production silently ships the wrong total on every checkout. This is why unit tests lie — and what senior engineers test instead: real integration, property-based testing, observability, and contracts.

247 tests passing in 800 milliseconds tells you almost nothing about whether the system actually works. A green unit test only confirms that one bolt, in isolation, is fine — while the engine is on fire. The moment you mock the database and stub the API, you stop testing your application and start testing your imagination of how those things behave. This video breaks down the three things seniors trust instead of the green bar, with real Python and TypeScript examples

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. There is a way to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

Generate your backlog !
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La semaine dernière, j'ai écrit « Delete your backlog. » L'article a été bien reçu et beaucoup tourné, et une question est revenue plus souvent en MP presque toujours formulée de la même manière : « Oui, mais avec l'IA, alors ? »

Et c'est une vraie question. Parce qu'au moment exact où je plaidais pour supprimer, purger, faire de l'espace, une bonne partie des équipes Produit découvraient l'inverse : qu'il était devenu trivial de produire. De générer des epics, des features, des user stories, des critères d'acceptation, des variantes, en quelques secondes, presque gratuitement*.