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Mitigating cognitive bias when coding

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

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Getting More People Involved in Your Decision Making

I think, i think that's an important point. And and another mitigation that occurs to me, and alexey actually alluded to this, is getting more people involved. They are bringing their own sets of biases and and perspectives into that decision making. But because it's slightly skewed from that of of the people who were you do deep into the problem,. They can see things that others can't. It reminds me of a debugging example once, very early in my career, and someone who was working for me came in and she said, i just can't gure out what's wrong with this code. I asked her to just tell me what the code was doing, line by line

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