"eXtreme Go Horse" and Why Experienced Engineers Do Everything Wrong (TM)

"eXtreme Go Horse" and Why Experienced Engineers Do Everything Wrong (TM)

Author: Luke Pighetti and Casey Rogers April 30, 2024 Duration: 35:36

Luke and I riff on "eXtreme Go Horse", a Brazilian coding style we discovered through a youtube video by the Primeagen.

We discuss how experienced engineers so often engage in "bad" practices that beginner engineers are trained to avoid and share instructive and entertaining stories from our respective careers in tech.


Extreme Go Horse:

https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse-methodology-xgh-9fa739ab55b4

theprimeagen on Sprints and XGH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1Q4c3TF3c


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