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Professional Antipatterns

Things I have lived through in real engineering organizations. No coworkers are named and no company is identified: the point is the pattern, not the people.

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· Professional Antipatterns Professional Antipatterns: reprimanded for not committing enough // In 2025 I was reprimanded because my commit count on the company's KPI dashboard was lower than other people's, while I was the lead architect and team lead. How an agent skill that split my work into more commits made management believe I had improved, why commit count fails as a KPI, and what a healthy alternative looks like.

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