Strategies for balancing immediate business needs with long-term code quality, including negotiating refactoring time with stakeholders and preventing shortcuts that accumulate into systemic problems.
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A developer attempts to use AI (Claude) to diagnose and fix WordPress SEO and indexing problems, including missing robots.txt, schema markup issues, and Google Search Console configuration. The experiment reveals important lessons about AI limitations, the need for human oversight at checkpoints, and the challenges of letting AI make bulk changes without incremental validation.
Rob Reesor shares his four-decade technology career journey from early AI expert systems at Intellicorp through pioneering e-commerce at Virtual Vineyards to executive leadership roles across multiple private equity-backed companies. He discusses the evolution of software development, the challenges of technical debt management, building trust with non-technical stakeholders, and navigating acquisitions while emphasizing transparency and team empowerment.
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