Building Software Capital: How to write the highest quality code and why
summary
Argues that long-term velocity comes from building “software capital” (reusable, documented, tested components) not piling technical debt that grows exponentially; uses std::vector as an example of reusable capital, shows one careful code review yields 90% of the feedback and recommends concrete practices: code reviews, unit tests with dependency injection, contracts (BDE-style schema), CI/try servers, and automated refactoring tooling like clang-format/clang-tidy plus clear component/package organization.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00The myth of more developers
- 2:40Optimizing team size
- 3:40The cost of technical debt
- 5:10Building software capital
- 7:51Seven principles of quality
- 13:06Code reviews
- 15:09Debugging and accountability
- 18:38Standards and tooling
- 21:47Unit testing
- 25:43Contracts in software
- 29:04Managing bug definitions
- 32:23Designing good interfaces
- 34:27Code organization
- 37:36Innovation tax
- 38:58Infrastructure importance
- 41:03Long-term sustainability
