One weird trick to becoming a better software developer
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Claim: cognitive empathy and emotional empathy are the single underrated skills that make developers reliably ship the right product on time. Evidence: five concrete exercises — better logging for future you, shadow QA/DevOps, read other people’s code, write tests as API design, practice Miller's law/active listening. Anecdote: adding a small tracking feature within scope doubles revenue for a project. References tools and metrics (Microsoft’s 53 attributes paper, Google rotation programs) and shows how empathy changes what gets built and whether it succeeds.
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