Shows the problem with layer cakes in applications or how you might want to go toward onion architectures.

Excellent piece, it show quite well the problem of skipping the "grunt work". Without it you can't really learn your trade (be it astrophysics or anything else). It also shows how the incentives on scientific careers are wrong. It's not new, but when LLM agents become available, things are definitely changing for the worst.

Examples of how i3 and go stamp versions. This is indeed good habits to ease dealing with errors in production.

Cryptic title to be honest. But this is a good explanation of why any "agile transformation" better start close to the code and in particular with automated tests. If you can crack that nut (and it take time), the rest will follow naturally.