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 >>

These DOS games turn 30 in 2026: Quake Duke Nukem 3D Red Alert Tomb Raider Chex Quest Broken Sword Daggerfall Death Rally HOMM 2 Phantasmagoria 2 Settlers 2 Harvester Leisure Suit Larry 7 Big Red Racing Lighthouse Normality Powerslave Strife Pandora Directive Time Commando Zork Nemesis Toonstruck Z

Let's talk about AI Hype and the Theory of Constraints. From a business perspective, the key metric is "lead time." The time it takes to get an idea to the point where it's producing revenue ("in the customer's hands"). 1/10

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

We may have found a new, very successful was of dealing with cancer. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.jaist.ac.jp/english/what...

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

It has been quite an odyssey, but now it is finally here: 📣 📚 Domain-Driven Transformation: Modernize Legacy Systems and Mitigate Risk 📚 📣 In this book, Carola Lilienthal and I present our approach to transform architecturally eroded systems. domain-driven-transformation.com

The crazy thing is that the AI pundits tell us that LLMs will solve all our problems by making us more productive while in reality we will spend half of our time checking sources. There goes innovation !

So wait, they asked the chat bot if it could do the thing and if it said yes then they counted it? Hilarious.

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

bsky.app/profile/dana... I believe everything in this post. I’ve experienced similar. But I’d caveat with: - Doing this with current tools requires knowledge of how to properly prompt and guide them. - You need to be good at code reviewing and/or keeping batch sizes small to keep it on track IMO.

Sunday pro tip #1: 1. It is my contention that AI should not be expected to write tests; AI should only write code that makes the tests pass. 2. No serious engineering team should ever consider deploying to production unless they ran mutation testing and made sure all surviving mutants got killed.

Scott Galloway a decade ago: "In the 60s our brightest minds put us on the Moon, now they're in Silicon Valley trying to optimize ad visibility to get you to maybe buy a car you have no interest in." And we don't think about this as often as we should.

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

The biggest threat to your software architecture isn't always essential and technical complexity. Often, it’s "implicit ranking"—the hidden hierarchy that convinces smart people to stay silent. ...

The low-angel Frieren meme is genuinely inspiring. Someone braver than the troops shares a picture they know turned out weird. Thousands start sharing their own art, offering advice and laughing together at something that is genuinely hard. No ai to be seen --- just people supporting each other.

Event Sourcing is the storing of state-changing decisions made within a part of the domain. (noodling with my intro for my upcoming talk on event sourcing: luma.com/dt9fc391) #EventSourcing #Java

The deterioration of social media during the last couple of years has also changed my view on their dangers and benefits. More self-discipline is totally needed. Very good article. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

On the blog: Think for Yourself "By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

There's a huge difference between optimizing for making bigger changes faster and optimizing for making smaller changes more frequently. Lean towards the latter, even though most of the industry is trying very hard to find ways to do the former.

The industry’s obsession with developer productivity is meaningless. More code faster is greater productivity? More features? More Pull Requests? If Priti’s book has more chapters than Bill’s, is Priti a more productive author? codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...

New on the blog: Think for Yourself "You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions." kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...

Really like this, nothing new to those already familiar with these practices but nicely framed - good resource to share with folks

As engineers, our job remains fundamentally anchored in two core activities: managing complexity and optimizing for learning. New AI tools are seductive, frictionless, and incredibly convenient, but we must apply them strategically to augment these engineering skills. 🧵 1/6

"...and at the end, all the tests were passing." I've seen them do it. Lots of other devs have seen them do it. LLMs will sometimes cheat to make test suites green. They'll change assertions, comment out failing tests, set them to be ignored, or just plain delete them. Two words: mutation testing

A conference with Eliyahu Goldratt memes is my kind of conference #TheoryOfConstraints #FastFlowConf

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.”” 👀 fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Some people are saying the potential overbuild because of AI might not be a bad thing because, like the dotcom era, it could leave behind infrastructure we’ll benefit from for a long time. 1/6

I cannot stress this enough: do not ask it to build an entire app, but rather: implement this function so that it passes this test.

fuck yeah

I've been thinking about my chat with Dan North, we revisited the roots of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). What struck me again is how easily we can misunderstand BDD as just another testing tool or automation framework, when it’s something deeper than that. 🧵 1/4

👇🏻 I've just seen this deal was extended. You've got 1 day 8 hours left if you thought you'd missed out!

It will be the hottest book of 2025. Go get @suksr.bsky.social 's new book Architecture for Flow architectureforflow.com #wardleymapping #ddd #teamtopologies

Trust us. www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

Ya know. I keep hearing how AI will eliminate "junior devs," but the same tech requires senior devs to fix, validate, and test the generated code. How are we to create senior devs if there are no junior devs? Just askin'.

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question" They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like. Which is very, very, very different

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Hexagonal architecture is not worth the effort. Just ditch ports and adapters and do functional core / imperative shell FFS. Now seriously read this f*** book pragprog.com/titles/swddd...

I've been reflecting on event-driven architecture, problems in the eco-system and what needs to change. Tldr; It's a mess, but we can do better 🚀 boyney123.substack.com/p/event-driv...

Not wrong.

Hey there! Hoping to have some reach here. Basically I'm trying to hire my boss. Feel free to reach out to me for questions. RT appreciated! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...