When I was actively contributing to the Go project, my primary feed was the code review email firehose. Issues, mailing lists, and Slack had low SNR. The finished commit history was better: it was finely polished work with some of the best written commit messages I have ever encountered. But it didn’t hold a candle to code reviews for operational learning. The commit history could tell you what got done and why, in impressive technical detail. But the code review could also tell you about mid-stream direction changes; what concerns were taken seriously; what got started and not completed; what values drove decisions.
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The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively low-trust group of engineers to collaborate. It appears to have been initially developed for the Apache server OSS project in the 90s, corporatized by Google in the early 2000s, and popularized throughout the industry by several means, most notable of which was the GitHub PR.
Vibe-coded Go static analysis tools
Ideas are now a major bottleneck for vibe-coding. There are whole categories of software that simply don’t occur to me to write. Philip Zeyliger pointed me at one: Go static analysis tools. These are great candidates: easy to describe easy to test high value low risk He created a checker that requires slog.InfoContext instead of slog.Info when a context is available, to improve our telemetry/observability. I followed up with a checker that lets you annotate a Go struct as requiring complete, explicit annotation.
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