Overview

Most developer onboarding is still operationally weak.

A new engineer clones a repo, opens the README, installs dependencies, runs the obvious command, and still ends up blocked because the real setup path lives somewhere else.

Maybe CI is stricter than local. Maybe a service has to be running first. Maybe the package manager changed. Maybe generated files are required. Maybe the README test path is not the path that actually matters.

That is not just onboarding friction.