April Wensel, Founder of Compassionate Coding, discusses the importance of empathy in software development. She shares how compassion can ease the struggles of maintaining legacy code and technical debt. April emphasizes the need for supportive environments, particularly for junior developers during onboarding. She also explains the beneficial effects of empathy in code reviews and fostering team morale. Additionally, she advocates for the refactor-over-rewrite approach, asserting that compassionate practices lead to better collaboration and code quality.

April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, shares her mission to humanize the tech industry. Discussions include the importance of empathy in tech, reframing team culture for success, the job hopping debate, and the power of compassionate coding to improve software engineering.