
Pete Hodgson (@thepete.net on bluesky)
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@thepete.net on bluesky Independent consultant helping engineering teams tackle thorny problems. Sociotechnical architect 🧐. Formerly Earnest, ThoughtWorks.
Pacific Northwest, USA
Joined March 2009
RT @ahmadalfy: بعيد عن هري كتير . ده أفضل مقال قرأته عن سبب ان فيه ناس شايفه الذكاء الصناعي بيساعدها في شغلها وناس تانية على النقيض شايفا….
blog.thepete.net
AI coding assistants excel at specific types of tasks, but fail impressively elsewhere. Use the Constraint-Context framework to identify which tasks are best for AI, and learn how to re-frame your...
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There's also a REALLY interesting case study from eBay's @OpenFeature adoption that's well worth reading. - Rolling out a platform to 300 teams .- Billions of flag evaluations made per day .- 2500+ experiments behind flags every year.
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I got to write the forward for @GetFlagsmith's eBook, Scaling Feature Flags!. Feature flagging is becoming more and more mainstream, but teams can struggle with some common challenges when adopting the practice. I think this handy little guide will help!.
flagsmith.com
Dig into how feature flags allow you to move faster while improving safety, how to fight vendor lock-in, and how global organisations like eBay have successfully introduced feature flags at scale.
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Engineering leaders at startups sometimes have to fake it as product leaders too 😅. A short guide on what a useful, succinct product strategy looks like, how to build it, and how to use it to identify and prioritize and roadmap of engineering work.
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A practical cheatsheet for when Product Strategy falls onto your shoulders, even though it's not your core expertise. I review what makes for a good strategy, and provide a basic framework for...
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full-on vibe-coding doesn't work for real-world codebases, but we can still get a lot of the productivity boost via a more iterative approach. Chain-of-vibes lets you scale up agentic AI to non-trivial coding tasks, by keeping an engineer in the loop.
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Chain-of-Vibes is a workflow that lets you overcome AI's current inadequacies in tackling meaty coding tasks, by setting up a tight feedback loop between yourself and the AI.
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Why so many teams got a prototype of amazing AI-powered feature built in, like, a week, but then struggled to make improvements after the MVP launched. Fixing this is all about building a systematic feedback loop, using domain-specific evals.
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Many teams are struggling to improve the quality of their Gen-AI features post-launch. Learn a key technique to sustained progress - a solid feedback loop based on evals.
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Slides from my Migratory Patterns talk at KubeCon today. I told attendees I'd share the slides - if you weren't at the talk then these probably aren't super helpful on their own. I'll reply in thread with the talk video once it's online.
speakerdeck.com
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOHnDhPH3YQ Big technical migrations - like switching databases - can feel like you're swapping out the engine…
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LLMs are like a cocky grad student at a bar: confronted with a topic it doesn't know much about, the AI will start to confidently spout convincing bullshit - uh sorry, "hallucinate". Can we fix this by giving the LLM a sense of how certain it feels?.
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When you push an LLM to the edge of its knowledge it feels like talking to a cocky grad student at a bar: confronted with a topic it doesn't know much about, the AI will start to confidently spout...
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I suspect this design decision won't age well
vercel.com
The Flags SDK is a free open-source library that gives developers the tools they need to use feature flags in Next.js and SvelteKit applications.
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Excited to NERD OUT about feature flags!!!.
The Feature Flag Super Stream is happening!!! 🎉. Join me & a dozen of my feature flag friends from around the 🌎 as we exchange ideas, discuss trends & talk the future of feature flags 🚩 . Streams May 9th at 10am PT / 1pm ET on @OpenFeature's YouTube, LinkedIn & X (Deets in 🧵)
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Blurghed about expand/contract: the key technique that allows teams to deploy to prod as often as they wish without downtime, without stress, and without drama.
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The expand/contract pattern is the key to zero-downtime deployment, replacing nail-biting stop-the-world rollouts with a series of incremental changes that can be made at a leisurely pace.
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RT @martinfowler: NEW POST Pete Hodgson @ph1 describes the best patterns for platform teams to collaborate in the different phases of plat….
martinfowler.com
Platform teams ensure success by thoughtfully selecting which collaboration patterns to use with their customer teams, based on the maturity of each team and the phase of their platform adoption.
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