Behavioral Software Engineering by Mario Fusco

Have you ever noticed yourself chasing the latest framework fad or tweaking benchmarks based on your gut feeling? Mario Fusco argues that, just like in behavioral economics, cognitive biases—anchoring, availability, bandwagon effect, framing, not-invented-here—creep into software engineering, skewing how we measure performance and pick tools.

Drawing on 50 years of Kahneman & Tversky research, he’ll expose these brain shortcuts, show how our human quirks shape code quality and tech decisions, and offer a reality check on how to write better software by understanding our own decision-making hacks.

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