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Scenario

When engineering partners avoid technical conflicts and build competing solutions

My engineering partner and I have been working on this product for eighteen months and we fundamentally disagree about technical architecture decisions but we've stopped having the actual argument and instead we just passive-aggressively implement our preferred approaches in different parts of the codebase. I can see us building something incoherent and I don't know how to get back to honest technical disagreement without it feeling like a personal attack on work we've already done.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two engineers are fragmenting their shared technical vision because they've conflated honest technical disagreement with personal criticism.

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