If you're an architect or tech lead, making authoritative decisions based on your technical expertise is probably what got you to where you are. That probably still feels like the right thing to do. That's exactly what makes it tricky. >>>

No, AI is not coming for your developer job, regardless of the nonsense the hype mongers are pushing. (I'm talking just about developer jobs—it obviously impacts other areas.) That's not to say the layoffs aren't real, but rather that the corporations are hiding normal corporate behavior behind 1/11

Resurrecting this in the era of LLM assisted development: blogs.itemis.com/en/unit-test...

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

The only way to speed up an entire system is to address the entire system, especially any bottlenecks. The bottleneck is only rarely the coding. Spotify, which has gone full AI to write its code, hasn't laid anybody off because it understands these issues. 8/11

Watching devs suddenly discover that the ability to write was important all along...

“SaaS is dead. Everyone will just create what they need” I think this underestimates what a PITA it is to create software. Lots more short form video content is created today than ever before. The tools are now ubiquitous. The vast majority still just consume it.

Love this headline and the whole first sentence 😂 «Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir» @adfichter.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/p...

Move along now; there’s nothing to see here

contest is over, y'all. my colleague already won linkedin

CRUD only seems simpler because you're leaving the workflows to be assembled by each user in their heads.

Tell me you've never worked with COBOL without telling me you've never worked with COBOL. If you're attending college now, and you're looking for a surefire career that will net you great pay for the foreseeable future, learn COBOL. You'll make a fortune fixing all the damage AI does to banks.

this was basically the model we had. it was glorious. we've strayed so far from the light

the computer should have never left this room. we have to go back

For some weekend fun: 🚨 WoB PATTERN: Distributed Monolith "Why call a method locally when you can send a synchronous HTTP request across three availability zones?" worstofbreed.net/patterns/dis... #worstofbreed #SoftwareArchitecture #MaintenanceNightmare #TechHumor

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

Fragments: LLMs make our days harder, an LLM reacts badly to a rejected pull request, the Promptware Kill Chain, horror and elation trying Claude Code for two weeks, Free Speech Poseurs' silence to real threats martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

Now that coding can go faster with AI, I guess we finally have more time to understand the actual problem we're solving, design architecture and boundaries that are resilient and adaptable to change, and most of all focus on the hard part: collaborating with other people. Great! 😄 Oh wait...

this is why you use SVG, mermaid graph syntax, etc - what are they doing over there, don't use nanobanana for this kinda thing

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

@jasongorman.bsky.social I subscribe to everything you wrote, I have issues with the conclusion. The idea of a "human in the loop" is not going to hold. Making sure that generated content (in whatever form) is valid is a tedious tasks and humans are not built for this. 🧵

The message about comprehension debt is spreading far When code's being created at "LGTM-speed", there's trouble ahead. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...

I do not fear the rise of superintelligence. I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

The market saw “AI + insurance” and reacted. Shares in Mony Group dropped after Insurify launched its new OpenAI powered comparison app. I used to work at Mony Group (MoneySupermarket), so I know this domain well. I installed the app and ran through a car insurance scenario.

"AI has removed the developer bottleneck" If developers really were your bottleneck, throwing developers at a problem would actually have worked in the past 20 years

It's 25 years to the day that proponents of iterative, "lightweight" development methodologies came together in Utah to work on their ski tans and pen the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...

Last week we published the 12th episode, and we've already recorded 4 more. Hopefully these stories inspire and help people — in any role — on their path to changing the way we do architecture and design. Check out the series: buff.ly/ihPoVzk

In the coming weeks I'm giving the tactical DDD training twice. And something struck me while preparing: with agentic AI becoming more capable, Domain-Driven Design isn't becoming less relevant. For complex problems, it's becoming a necessity. ...

Strong agree

I don't know if the concept was coined by @jasongorman.bsky.social or not, but he explains it better than me: codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t...

There's a marginal increase in the overall software delivery stream if we produce features faster than we can validate them in production. Not only will it create a bottleneck, but also introduce more risks (potential bugs, higher churn) if we increase the batch size.

The fuck did I just read

AI won't fix your broken org; it will actually expose and amplify your problems. Where did we see this before? ;) Great article by Dr. Lisa Lang: www.velocityschedulingsystem.com/blog/theory-...

"CC is using an order of magnitude more instructions on a 33ms “frame” basis than SM64 did to render a 3D world" spader.zone/engine/

there's an interesting and very thorough analysis of this paper on mastodon, by @jenniferplusplus.com: hachyderm.io/@jenniferplu...

In today's edition of "What could possibly go wrong", I show you, Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI Agents. arstechnica.com/information-...

The pain of troubleshooting big batches serves as a corrective (balancing) feedback loop to reduce batch size. GenAI weakens this feedback loop by making troubleshooting big batches less painful.

GenAI feels like another turning point for software development. It’s really just the latest moment in a long, repeating pattern of partial revelation and broad avoidance of how creating software needs to be approached. blog.robbowley.net/2026/01/30/s...

Tools don’t make great software, thinking does, and every time we outsource understanding to a tool, whether it’s a framework or an AI, we quietly accept worse outcomes later.

"European alternatives to digital services and products, such as cloud services and SaaS" european-alternatives.eu

Translation: "we were fine collecting our fat paychecks and RSUs while we were only killing brown people overseas. Now that we're killing white people inside the US we're worried this may reflect badly on us." Palantir was *never* a good company to work for, literally never.

Normally, I wouldn't hoist a post like this 👇 to the top level, but this is a great example of someone who can be easily replaced by Claude Code. When a machine can write the code for you, other factors become more important. Just sayin'.

Haven't had a single design job in 3 months. Anyone need any small design work done? It takes less than 5 seconds to RT, like something Big up your mates, help them out, even if you don't need anything done Support them when you can. You never know who might see it Link in bio as always Cheers ✊

Should culture fit be a factor in hiring, or is tech skill sufficient? To me, software development is first and foremost a social activity performed by humans, with all the baggage that comes with being human. Technical competence is nice, but it is not the core of who we are. 1/10

It sounds reasonable when the majority agrees. If eight out of ten people offer the same advice for an architectural decision, we assume it must be the valid choice. But do we ever stop to think where that majority comes from? ...

If Eli Goldratt was alive today, I'm pretty sure he'd tell you that the rate at which you're able to generate code matters IF AND ONLY IF that rate is: - lower than the rate at which your team is able to review code AND

Most of the evidence about AI "speeding up" development is coming from folks doing individual, toy projects they had on their to-do list. Throw it into a whole team, or even worse org, and let me know how it plays out with a reinforcing feedback loop driven by >>