This is very helpful for a team and even though it takes a little time it actually speeds things up in the long run. Using PR templates can help. A general description of the problem including a screenshot or video go a long way.

I remember when I was working at a startup and a new engineer merged his code and it totally broke the service. I asked him if he ran his code locally first and he stared at me speechless.

Running the code locally is the easiest way to eliminate a whole series of silly bugs.

Like mentioned in the article adding a test and then reverting your change to make sure the test fails is really important, especially with LLMs writing tests. They are great at making things look like they work but completely don’t.