Write Code You Can Still Read 6 Months Later

AlanWu advises developers to write readable code by using full words for naming variables instead of abbreviations and ensuring functions perform only one task. Separately, read-only Postgres access via MCP servers can still impact production performance due to resource consumption from joins and aggregates. To mitigate this, AI database traffic should be treated as a separate workload class using dedicated roles, bounded connection pools, and explicit limits on statements and locks to ensure workload safety.