"매 self-as-instrument — 매 personal experience 의 cultural lens 의 X, 매 cultural lens through personal experience.". Autoethnography 의 ethnography 의 first-person 의 reflexive variant — Carolyn Ellis / Tony Adams 의 1990s formalize. 매 2026 의 UX research / HCI / AI ethics 의 standard method (영향 the lived experience of bias, accessibility, AI use).
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date: 2026-05-10
context: solo coding session, claude-opus-4-7
mood: 6/10
position: M, 32y, SWE, 8y exp
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# Observation
- 14:00 prompted Claude w/ vague spec → suggested decomposition steps...
- 14:15 felt resistance to refactor; noticed "it's working, why touch"
# Reflection
- 매 sunk-cost feeling 의 cultural inheritance? Engineering pride?
# Theoretical link
- Norman 의 affordance / Schön 의 reflective practitioner.
Pattern 2 — Coding (qualitative) — open coding
codes={"resistance-to-refactor":["sunk cost","it's working","why touch"],"delegation-discomfort":["am I cheating","is this me"],"flow-with-LLM":["pair programming","thinking partner"],}
Pattern 3 — Layered narrative (analytic)
## Vignette
[evocative narrative paragraph]
## Analysis
[theoretical interpretation: Schön reflective practice]
## Cultural connection
[broader: SWE identity in age of LLM agents]
Pattern 4 — Member check (peer debrief)
# Share excerpt with informant for responsechecks=[{"excerpt":"...","informant":"P3","response":"yes resonates","date":"2026-05-09"},{"excerpt":"...","informant":"P5","response":"I'd frame differently","date":"2026-05-09"},]
매 결정 기준
상황
Approach
Researcher 의 own lived domain
Autoethnography (insider)
Other community
Ethnography (outsider) + reflexivity
Quick UX insight
diary study + autoethnography hybrid
Theory contribution
Analytic autoethnography (Anderson)
Activist / community
Critical / performative
기본값: Analytic autoethnography with peer debrief + member check.
언제: studying one's own use of tech / LLM, insider perspective on team or community, theoretical reflection.
언제 X: large-N generalization needed, double-blind requirement, no reflexivity training.
❌ 안티패턴
Solipsism: 매 self 의 only — no theoretical contribution.
No reflexivity: position 의 unmark — bias hidden.
Cherry-picked vignette: confirmation bias.
Skipping member check in critical / community work.
🧪 검증 / 중복
Verified (Ellis & Bochner, Anderson 2006, Adams et al. "Autoethnography" 2015).
신뢰도 A.
🕓 Changelog
날짜
변경
2026-05-08
Phase 1
2026-05-10
Manual cleanup — FULL content (types, validity criteria, 4 patterns)