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This week: We're looking at MongoDB client lifetimes, C# collection contracts, and giving Claude Code useful context for .NET work. There's practical reading on mentoring junior developers, handling competing priorities, and having clearer conversations with your manager. The videos tackle ownership of AI-generated code, human review of AI pull requests, and retiring products and services.
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Weekly Recap
How Do Developers Deprecate Products and Services?
From the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, this developer wanted perspectives on how others deprecate products and services.
This Bot Submitted A Question On AI Reviews Rejected By Humans
A bot submitted a question to the channel on what processes are followed when humans are rejecting AI pull requests.
AI Writes The Code. You Still Own The Quality - Principal Engineering Manager AMA
How long do we really think it's going to last when we can blame the agent for the bug that got into production? Did you sign off on that PR? Or maybe you even had another one of your agents do it...
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MongoClient in ASP.NET Core: Lifetime and Resource Ownership
Learn MongoClient in ASP.NET Core with explicit configuration, singleton reuse, borrowed collection handles, and version-aware resource ownership at shutdown.
Helping a Mentee Choose a Development Focus
Help a mentee choose a development focus by exploring interests, everyday friction, and useful opportunities without forcing a goal or a larger career plan.
Sharing Information Without Overloading Engineers
Share information without overwhelming engineers: make context accessible, explain changes, and distinguish useful transparency from repeated interruption.
How to Raise a Difficult Issue in a One-on-One
Navigate difficult conversations with your manager: explain the impact, clarify the support you need, and agree on next steps without having every answer.
Make a Bounded ASP.NET Core Change with Claude Code
Explore a bounded ASP.NET Core change with Claude Code: trace an endpoint, define input rules, preserve existing contracts, and review meaningful evidence.
How to Help Junior Developers Without Doing Their Work
Help junior developers through the problem in front of them by listening, clarifying expectations, and choosing guidance that keeps them actively involved.
Collections in C#: Access, Mutation, and Ownership Explained
Understand collections in C# through access, ordering, equality, mutation, and ownership contracts, with practical examples for everyday application code.
Handling Competing Priorities as an Engineering Manager
Understand competing priorities as an engineering manager: clarify requests, account for capacity, name displaced commitments, and escalate choices clearly.
C# Code Intelligence in Claude Code: Setup and Limits
Understand C# code intelligence in Claude Code, including the csharp-lsp plugin, server prerequisites, diagnostics, symbol navigation, and verification limits.
Career Conversations With Your Manager: Start With Your Own Goals
Make career conversations with your manager clearer by exploring your interests, desired responsibilities, role expectations, and opportunities as goals change.
Managing Your Time as a New Engineering Manager
Learn to manage your time as an engineering manager, balance support and coordination, handle interruptions, and recognize when your workload needs to change.
Give Claude Code the Right Context for Your .NET Repository
Give Claude Code useful .NET repository context with solution facts, instruction loading, scoped rules, package conventions, and explicit validation boundaries.
Test Vercel Eve Integrations in C#: Compatibility and Failure Recovery
Vercel Eve testing in C# separates adapter checks from real protocol tests, covering compatible versions, repeated turns, disconnects, and failure recovery.
MongoDB in C#: Connecting, Mapping, and Reading Documents
Understand MongoDB in C# through client ownership, typed BSON mapping, bounded reads, write boundaries, and index evidence without duplicating CRUD tutorials.
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