Martin Fowler
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Author on Software Development. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.
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Joined October 2008
With the recent uptick in tech activity on Bluesky, I've decided that I will start posting there in addition to my current locations. I've also put together my current thoughts on the state of social media.
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I see a continued fragmentation of social media as people leave X(Twitter).
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FINAL §. Sriram Narayan concludes his article in impact intelligence by addressing five common objections to this activity, including slowing down, lack of agility and collaboration, and the unpredictability of innovation.
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A guide for technology leaders and their teams to shift the organization's focus from productivity to business impact.
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Five Quick Reads: Durable v Disposable code, Domain Models as memory, getting AI to generate its own coding rules, what AI should stand for, and what loses more time than you save with AI.
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a short post
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NEW §. Sriram Narayan continues his article on impact intelligence by outlining five actions that can be done to improve impact intelligence including: demand management, impact validation, and an alternative to ROI.
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Nik Malykhin found it useful to get an AI assistant to write its own coding rules by analyzing his code, and then asking it to refine them as worked with it.
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RT @sriramnarayan: CTOs have been saying that the demand for new functionality far exceeds delivery capacity and tech budgets. A.I. has fur….
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A guide for technology leaders and their teams to shift the organization's focus from productivity to business impact.
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Birgitta Böckeler reports on explorations of how far LLMs can build decent software without human intervention.
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An experiment to test the limits of autonomous code generation by LLMs
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My pulse will be quickenin'.
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NEW POST. Matteo Vaccari shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code.
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Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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NEW POST. Many people like to give their LLM assistant a persona, such as a stubborn donkey, a genie, a slot machine, and Uriah Heep.
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Is an LLM a stubborn donkey, a genie, a slot machine, or Uriah Heep?
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and a thoughtful general essay on why the hype and the immovable skeptics are both missing the train.
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I’ve had the song “Stuck in the Middle with You” in my head for a few weeks. (R.I.P. Michael Madsen!) 1 But not because of Reservoir Dogs - but because of the public discussion about AI coding tools....
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Korny Sietsma has a great example of how using an LLM for coding is very helpful but with limitations.
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I thought it’d be worth posting an example of a bigger task I did the other day - just to show what can be done, without crazy vibe-coding, on a non-greenfields app, using ASP.Net Core not some...
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Thoughtful essay on value and limits of AI. "One of the real challenges here is the way that A.I. undermines the human value of attention, and the individuality that flows from that.". (gift link).
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We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.
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RT @copyconstruct: AI agent demos would be better if they did tasks like contest an insurance claim (tedious work) than make a reservation….
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I've known Beth for ages: wicked smart, understands tech really well, and cares about its impact on ordinary people. We need people in Congress like that.
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Bethany Andres-Beck is a candidate for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.
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RT @unmeshjoshi: Enjoyed this discussion with Premanand Chandrasekaran and Lilly Ryan, pairing with @martinfowler . The 'Expert Generalist'….
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I really resonated with: "I think I’m less interested in my own happiness (whatever that means) than I am interested in doing work that feels worth doing." - @mipsytipsy reflects on her career.
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I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pus…
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Pete Hodgson continues his excellent writing on Gen AI by proposing an approach to leading engineers towards an AI-assisted future, centered around a the concept of aligned autonomy.
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Your CEO wants to know why AI isn't writing half your code yet — are you ready for that conversation? I lay out a practical, proven strategy which will help your teams understand AI's capabilities...
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Gen AI breaks two common constants with developer tools: developers are willing to flit between Gen AI tools and they are willing to pay for them. @sogrady.
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Zhixin Sun, Fangchen Zhao, Han Zeng, Cui Luo, Heyo Van Iten, Maoyan Zhu, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historically, there have been two constants with developer tools. First, that their users...
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NEW POST. Even with LLMs, Birgitta Böckeler still cares about the code: “LLMs are NOT compilers, interpreters, transpilers or assemblers of natural language, they are inferrers.
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Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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Informative interview about a company that's leaned heavily into AI Augmented software development. Interesting to hear that this is leading them to increase the hiring of grads.
What happens when a company goes all in on AI?. At Shopify, engineers are expected to utilize AI tools, and they’ve been doing so for longer than most. In this live episode from LDX3 in London. — recorded two weeks ago — I spoke with @fnthawar, Head of Engineering, about how
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