Software engineering isn’t as rational as we like to think: just like in Behavioral Economics, our brains lean on handy shortcuts—anchoring, availability bias, pro-innovation and bandwagon effects, not-invented-here syndrome, framing and more—to make decisions. That means we benchmark, pick tools and solve problems based on how we perceive them (or how they’re hyped), not on cold hard facts.
In his talk, Mario Fusco dives into almost 50 years of research on these quirks, showing how each bias leaks into our code quality, tooling choices and design patterns. Once you spot those mental traps, you’ll start writing cleaner, more objective software instead of chasing the latest fad.
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