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From The AI Skill I Rely On Daily — Priscila Andre de Oliveira, Sentry · ≈6:41
Quantifies the churn rate that makes stale agent understanding a daily problem in a 15-year-old codebase with external contributors.
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- Quantifies the churn rate that makes stale agent understanding a daily problem in a 15-year-old codebase with external contributors.
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technical debt. Um So and as I told you before, the code base the Sentry code base is very complex and it's a moving target. We have about 100 PRs merged every day. We have a four offices. Uh Sentry is fair sources. So we you can contribute to Sentry. We have also contributors. Um and we are all the time deprecating components, adding new components, adding new lint rules. Uh I don't know, you name it. Like all the time something happens at Sentry. I'm there over six years now and I can go on vacation. I come back and maybe my PR uh is full of conflicts and I have to solve those conflicts and I really need to understand like all the time I need to align and and understand something. It's a daily practice.
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