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Your Brain on Software Development

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This talk explores how cognitive biases affect decisions in programming and software architecture. It uses stories about systems that took an unexpected shape or were abandoned to examine how teams can optimize for the wrong thing.

Syllabus

Intro
Why would you do that
Who am I
The Brain
Fast and Slow
Are we logical
Cognitive biases
Anchoring effect
Availability heuristic
C for model
The hard easy effect
The matrix of value difficulty
The Dunning Kruger effect
Imposter syndrome
Hype cycle
Not enough meaning
Cargo cults
Scala
IKEA Effect
Time Complexity
Planning Poker
Devices
Backfire Effect
Recap
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