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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I break down the three-layer system I've been building so AI agents can scaffold and ship entire projects -- Ralph loops, an orchestration layer, and an optional Spec Kit integration -- and why my template library, not the fancy orchestration, is the real unlock.

This week wraps up the C# Visitor pattern series with real-world examples, best practices, a decision guide, and step-by-step implementation, plus a complete guide to logging in .NET with ILogger, Serilog, and OpenTelemetry. There's also deep HttpClient in .NET 10 coverage on observability, resilience, streaming, and DNS handling, along with practical guides to creating and understanding NuGet packages.

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about engineers reporting directly to a product manager -- the healthy conflict you lose, the career and delivery risks, and how to make it work if you find yourself in that spot.

This week goes deep on Entity Framework Core -- relationships, LINQ querying, performance tuning, testing strategies, and how it compares to Dapper -- plus HttpClient and IHttpClientFactory patterns in .NET. There's also a full run of C# design patterns covering Visitor, Interpreter, and Memento, alongside new videos on debugging, AI in your development workflow, and engineering leadership.

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss how to make progress on a problem when you genuinely have no idea what's going on, and the prove-or-disprove framework I use to turn guessing into a data-driven investigation.

This week digs into Entity Framework Core from setup through CRUD operations and schema migrations, plus a deep run on the Memento pattern and other C# design patterns like Interpreter and Mediator. New videos cover tackling tech debt, build vs buy decisions, and growing into senior and leadership roles.