Quinn Zhu - DEV Community

Quinn Zhu

Sep 23

Record a Green Local Boot Before Agent Work Starts

#beginners #ai #git #programming

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 22

Pin CI's Test Command Before Your First Agent Edit

#git #beginners #testing #cicd

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 21

Name One Green Test Before Your First Agent Session

#git #beginners #ai #testing

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 20

Build a Path Deny List Before Your First Agent PR

#git #beginners #ai #productivity

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 19

Hour One: Capture the Merge Command Before Any Agent Diff

#git #beginners #testing #ai

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 18

Score the Agent Diff Before You Request Review

#git #beginners #ai #productivity

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 17

Own the Red Test on Your First Agent PR

#testing #beginners #git #ai

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 17

Own the Red Test on Your First Agent PR

#testing #beginners #git #ai

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 16

Lock the Ticket Contract Before the Agent Touches Code

#git #beginners #ai #testing

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 14

Reproduce Before You Patch: A First-Week Gate for AI Diffs

#ai #testing #git #beginners

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 13

First Rollback: Revert the Agent PR You Cannot Explain

#git #beginners #ai #learning

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 12

First Hour on a New Team: Freeze Paths the Agent May Touch

#git #beginners #ai #productivity

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 11

New Hire Rule: Cap Your First AI PR With Median Merges

#git #beginners #ai #productivity

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 9

Day One: Keep the Agent Read-Only Until Tests Run

#git #beginners #ai #testing

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 7

Hour One in a New Repo: Pin Commands AI Must Not Invent

#beginners #git #ai #productivity

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 7

Day-One PR: Reject Any Diff Outside a Ticket Card

#beginners #ai #git #testing

6 min read

Quinn Zhu

Sep 6

Interview One Red Test Before You Touch the Code

#beginners #testing #git #ai

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 4

Rehearse Your First AI Rollback Before You Open the PR

#git #beginners #ai #codenewbie

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Quinn Zhu

Sep 4

Cache AI Code Reviews to Cut a 10M Token Budget 60%

#python #aicodereview #tokenbudget #caching

5 min read

Quinn Zhu

Sep 3

Write a Blast-Radius File Before Your First AI Patch

#beginners #git #testing #ai

7 min read

Quinn Zhu

Sep 2

Your First Morning on a Messy Codebase: Build a Trust Boundary Before You Ask AI Anything

#ai #productivity #legacy #testing

6 min read

Quinn Zhu

Sep 1

The AI Canary Test: Stop Your Assistant From Trusting the Whole Repo

#ai #opensource #beginners #productivity

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 31

Your First PR Needs a Mutation Drill, Not More Polishing

#ai #testing #beginners #workflow

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 30

Reviewing AI Code in Your First Week: A Junior's Drill

#ai #codequality #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 29

Score Your AI Reviewer Before You Trust It: A Three-Persona Drill

#ai #git #testing #productivity

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 28

First Hour, First PR, First Rollback: A New-Repo Drill for Juniors

#git #ai #productivity #beginners

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Quinn Zhu

Aug 26

Don't Read the Repo. Interrogate It: A Hypothesis-Driven Onboarding Workflow

#git #ai #productivity #beginners

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Quinn Zhu

Aug 24

Automate Conventional Commits With a Free AI Server: A Git Hook That Validates Itself

#git #ai #tutorial #productivity

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Quinn Zhu

Aug 23

I Gave My Git History to a Free AI Bot. It Broke 7 Times in 3 Days.

#ai #python #debugging #opensource

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 22

Why Generated Tests Fail: A Field Guide to 5 Failure Modes

#testing #python #ai #productivity

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 21

MonkeyCode Free Tier: A 20-Minute Setup with a Check at Every Step

#ai #tutorial #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 14

The $0 Filter I Run Before I Trust a New Coding Model

#ai #testing #programming #productivity

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 14

A Free, Reproducible Way to Vet the MiniMax H3 Hype (No Credit Card Required)

#ai #python #testing #opensource

4 min read

Quinn Zhu

Aug 10

I Stopped Trusting My Gut on AI Coding Models. Here's the 30-Minute Test Rig I Use Instead

#ai #programming #testing #productivity

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