The four heights
The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.
Execute — do the immediate task
+Run the linter on the open file and list warnings and errors sorted by severity. Include the rule…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Run the linter on the open file and list warnings and errors sorted by severity. Include the rule name, the line number, and a one-line explanation of why the rule fired so I can triage quickly. Do not fix anything automatically; just produce the report.
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Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I open a PR, run linting focused on this file and make it easy to get green: surface which…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I open a PR, run linting focused on this file and make it easy to get green: surface which warnings are the easiest to fix, estimate time for each (minutes), highlight any lint that likely indicates a real bug rather than style, and mark the ones I should ignore with a rationale so a reviewer can accept them.
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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+The linter reported a long list of issues and I am unsure which are critical for this change. I am…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+Lint finished and flagged many issues I don't know how to prioritize
The linter reported a long list of issues and I am unsure which are critical for this change. I am afraid I will waste time on style warnings while missing bugs. I cannot tell which rules indicate likely runtime problems. Which items should I fix first and how do I tell the difference between stylistic and semantically important lints?
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Become — change the pattern
+Our repo produces frequent lint warnings and I spend hours fixing trivial style items in reviews.…
Become — change the pattern
+Lint warnings keep piling across files
Our repo produces frequent lint warnings and I spend hours fixing trivial style items in reviews. Where are we losing time or credibility with linting, and what configuration or team habit should change so linting enforces real risks and leaves style debates to pre-commit or formatting tools?
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