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Divide And Conquer

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AI Programming Agile

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Divide And Conquer

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JDD: Jealousy Driven Development. The newest methodology where your AI coding assistant passive-aggressively questions every single one of your technical decisions like a judgmental coworker who thinks they're smarter than you.

"Are these the best fixes? Codex suggested something better" - Translation: "Your code is trash and I know it." Nothing says productive collaboration like an AI making you doubt yourself while you're just trying to push a hotfix at 6:32 PM on a Friday.

The real kicker? It's using Claude Fable 5 (apparently we've moved past Sonnet and Opus into full fairy tale territory) and running on "cursor/habit-mode-ui-016" - because why have simple version numbers when you can make it sound like a browser extension having an identity crisis?

Welcome to 2026, where your IDE gaslights you into imposter syndrome. At least it's polite enough to phrase it as a question.

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