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Diplomacy Is a Feature, Not a Bug

2026-05-05 · by Hannah Vernon · in Professional Development

I was reviewing some data export files the other day when a colleague flagged a problem. One of the rows in a CSV file was misaligned — columns shifted, extra fields appearing where they shouldn’t….

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