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Your Onboarding Is a Hazing Ritual and You Call It Agile
Bad onboarding disguised as Agile process sets new hires up to fail by loading them with full sprint expectations and 12+ hours of meetings from day one, then using public sprint reviews and probation-era silence to make the system's failures invisible.
May 08, 2026 · essay · Nguyen Duy Hung, dhung.dev
Topics
- engineering-craft
- developer-productivity
- software-engineering
- enterprise-software
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- Developer productivity
Developer productivity spans tooling choices, organizational alignment, and the human skills those tools depend on, with a growing body of sources questioning whether AI-assisted workflows deliver on their promise without eroding the judgment they require.
- Engineering craft
The discipline of writing code and building systems with deliberate attention to correctness, clarity, and maintainability, spanning language implementation, shell tooling, component architecture, and CI pipeline integrity.
- Enterprise software
Enterprise software serves large organizations with compliance, scale, and integration requirements that consumer tools rarely address; sources here touch documentation platforms, UX research tooling, and supply chain security risks specific to enterprise ecosystems.
- Software engineering
A broad discipline covering architecture, tooling, testing, and craft decisions that determine how software is built, maintained, and extended — a theme connecting sources on agent reliability, CSS platform primitives, component design, shell scripting, and more.
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