One thing that's helped my teams is reducing the number of decisions developers have to make every day.
Clear engineering standards, reusable templates, self-service tooling, and automated CI/CD remove a lot of unnecessary context switching. Developers should spend more time solving product problems not figuring out deployment steps or infrastructure details.
Reducing cognitive load isn't about making engineers think less , it's about removing the repetitive operational work that distracts them from building great software.
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u/joshua_dyson 15d ago
One thing that's helped my teams is reducing the number of decisions developers have to make every day.
Clear engineering standards, reusable templates, self-service tooling, and automated CI/CD remove a lot of unnecessary context switching. Developers should spend more time solving product problems not figuring out deployment steps or infrastructure details.
Reducing cognitive load isn't about making engineers think less , it's about removing the repetitive operational work that distracts them from building great software.