Implement a config store for background jobs.
If you can't explain in one sentence why your fix works, you are not allowed to commit it.
We are craftsmen, not mechanics slapping duct tape on a rusted muffler. The next time a ticket comes in saying "X is broken," do not immediately open your IDE. Open your brain.
: Successful reviews often append "learnings" to a progress.txt file to help the agent avoid repeating past mistakes in future loops.
: Use rr run --uncommitted to check staged/unstaged changes, or rr run --commit SHA for a specific commit.
We are paid to solve problems, not to apply patches until the user stops complaining. If you want to stop firefighting and start actually developing, you need to master . Specifically, you need to stop asking "What broke?" and start asking "Why did it break?"
The rise of Ralph has sparked debates about the future of the profession. While Huntley suggests that "software engineering" remains a high-level systems-thinking role, he emphasizes that purely "coding" roles are rapidly changing. He has advocated for hiring who know how to manage these loops rather than just writing syntax manually.