Why do so many software engineering teams see their development speed slow to a crawl? In this week's video, I explore the single biggest challenge in modern software engineering and programming: coupling. Now on @modernswe.bsky.social 📽️ ➡️ youtu.be/grPtnrOTP_4

With this podcast Hanna and I will try to widen our information diet with a book or paper outside (off course) of our field each week. Listen to the teaser now, wherever you get your podcasts! From next week on we release a new episode each Tuesday!! rss.com/podcasts/com...

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

The heatwave experienced in Europe this week was hotter because of our greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Heatwaves will get hotter until we reach net-zero global emissions. These simple facts still elude being discussed in much of the media coverage.

I love the concept of “semantic zoom” that @lexler.bsky.social introduces in her augmented coding patterns lexler.github.io/augmented-co...

New video and blog post about Harness Engineering - I'm seeing a lot of teams asking for technical coaching around using AI agents effectively, and this is what I'm teaching. video www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaiJ..., blog coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/06/i-st...

I Stopped Coding and Started Architecting Agents (And You Should Too) | @emilybache.com 📅 TONIGHT AT 7PM (UK) Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you NEVER miss an upload ➡️ youtube.com/@ModernSoftw...

When I first learned about XP in 2000, the values of Communication, Feedback and Simplicity were easy to grasp. The 4th value of Courage, though, wasn’t as clear. My recent experiences using LLMs to work with legacy code have helped me understand what Courage actually means! tiny.cc/m025101

I think AI is the best opening we've ever had to bring our engineering values to the mainstream, instead of the top single-digit-percent of teams it's always been. But nondeterminism will take more engineering discipline. Not less. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands...

Using an AI agent to speed up tests. Dropping Mockito helps, but is it a good idea? Nice insights in this article larseckart.com/2026/06/09/t...

This was a really good read. A lot of people are going to focus on specific numbers mentioned in the blog post like "we estimate these 800 API fixes would have taken 4 years", but I recommend reading the whole thing holistically as a write up of how software development processes are changing.

Well, here we are finally - the sound of one door closing and the end of a 17-year journey. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a...

I like the concrete measures Ms Lagarde is using at the ECB to help women and others in their careers, described in this article.

WELCOME TO THE MODERN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CHANNEL | Gojko Adzic We are extremely excited to welcome Gojko to the channel, and we are looking forward to presenting his first video in MSE colours tonight. At 7pm (UK). Join us in welcoming and celebrating Gojko 🎉💬

i wrote a post about the growing divide between AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts. wins and costs are both real, but too often fall on different groups of people. when you're only experiencing half the story, it's too easy to write each other off. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

Fragments: Dodgy metrics for AI usage, history of tech removing jobs, benchmarking closed and open models, LLMs multiply existing cruft, AI slop driving us crazy, I am the Global Interpreter Lock for agents martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

Announcing new training dates for "Deliver Learning Hours" - Samman Coaching training on 15th September. sammancoaching.org/training/del...

This is my latest hot take on agentic ai coding - have you had your Deep Blue moment yet? - video www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBe... - and blog coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/05/the-...

Agentic Workflows Have Changed EVERYTHING in 2026 (DEATH Of The Senior Dev?) | @emilybache.com 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/utBeUmDPApk

Agentic Workflows Have Changed EVERYTHING in 2026 (DEATH Of The Senior Dev?) | @emilybache.com 📅 TONIGHT @ 7PM (UK) Subscribe & turn on notifications 🔔 so you NEVER miss an upload! ➡️ youtube.com/@ModernSoftw...

The Samman method: technical coaching for better code. "Technical Coaching for Architects" - @emilybache.com . Watch: youtu.be/2cqgDKN48ak #amaberlin

I tried training a model instead of writing a skill and have some honest results. briandouglas.me/posts/2026/0...

We are respectfully informing you that Europe has reduced air pollutant concentrations of some of the most harmful pollutants for human health and the environment. Since 2005 ↓↓

Turns out my blog had been hacked after all... And Claude actually helped tremendously to find a solution (after being wroung about its early conclusions though 😬). TY all for your help yesterday! lengrand.fr/my-blog-... #claude #security

Skipped a week, sorry non-Dutch friends! But this week's newsletter is translated again! www.felienne.nl/2026-14/#eng... (Including a translation of my opening remarks in The Dutch Parliament this week on AI in schools)

"We’ve spent the last two years arguing about models. Which one is smartest, which one writes the cleanest React, which one hallucinates less. That conversation is fine as far as it goes, but it’s missing the other half of the system." New #Radar article by @addyosmani.bsky.social: bit.ly/43fulk0

A spaceship entered Earth's orbit and broadcast a message: "We are the Interstellar Library. Do you want to swap? We have thousands of stories." There were many replies. The library was silent for a whole day, then: "What do you mean, 'We have millions'?"

I see so many people obsessing over token efficiency barking up the wrong tree with bervity and compression and wotnot. They're missing The Big Factor. Inference works *recursively*. Every token in the context is fed back through to predict the next token. The big savings are in context lifetimes.

The Day An AI Agent DESTROYED This Company's Data | Sam Newman 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW WATCH HERE ➡️ youtu.be/gqJBS3YD7CE

New Java Annotated Monthly is here 🎯 Loaded with interesting reads on #Java, #Kotlin, #Spring, AI, and more. Plus, @emilybache.com joins us with her thoughts and content picks on AI agents and TDD. Don’t miss it 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/05...

Josh is one of my favourite educators (his blog posts are so well crafted), so this was a sobering read.

We've found the droid you're looking for... Is it just us, or does the Temple of Apollo at Stourhead in Wiltshire bear a passing resemblance to R2D2? #StarWarsDay 📷Clive Nichols

Are we returning to waterfall with AI? Panel: @joergm.bsky.social , @birgitta410.bsky.social , @tastapod.com , Silvia Schreier, Aino Vonge Corry @emilybache.com Watch: youtu.be/iW-4faoku8A #amaberlin

Want to be more effective? Join @socratesuk.bsky.social Training Day (near London, June 18) to meet @emilybache.com for her session: “Legacy Code - Characterization Testing with Approvals”. 🛠️ Learn Approval testing to get control of legacy code! 🔗 socratesuk.org/training_day... (1/4)

From a good friend and very experienced engineer. He's cancelled his Claude subscription because he is finding open models now good enough for coding willemvandenende.com/blog/enginee...

The way you adopt Agentic AI depends on your previous 'posture' for software development. It looks quite different if you were previously a TDD practitioner. In my latest video I examine the process in some depth. Video: youtu.be/_erJ5EdQFYU Blog: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/04/it-d...

Fragments: updated guide on AI coding, video on harness engineering, how long should a function be, the problems of Software Brain and why AI is unpopular martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

It Doesn’t Help To Push AI Into A Crappy Process | @emilybache.com 📅 TONIGHT AT 7PM (UK) Subscribe & turn on notifications 🔔 so you never miss an upload! ➡️ youtube.com/@ModernSoftw...

"The role of a business analyst is not writing documents. It's understanding the problem domain and coming in with a vast amount of preexisting domain knowledge." @tastapod.com Which is why expecting an AI agent to "one-shot" specs is futile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mLY...

Just canceled my #claudeCode subscription (I will be able to use it for a few more months, though). Will use #mistral a bit more now - even though it has most of the ethical problems of #GenAI too (*), it's at least European. (*) See smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on...

Emminently sensible advice from my friend @chrismdp.com who is hardcore into AI coding, has been for a long time. One of the saner voices out there. www.chrismdp.com/coding-with-...

I'm going to be speaking at Agentic Dev Days next week in Stockholm

We have a new addition to our highly regarded "TDD & BDD: Design Through Testing" course that will revolutionise the way our students learn on our training site... 👇

The new ThoughtWorks Tech Radar reads like a warning letter. Cognitive debt. Broken productivity metrics. Terms nobody agrees on. If you've been reading my posts, none of it will surprise you. It's always nice to get evidence that I'm not completely crazy and making all of this up.

Pleased to see mutation testing and pitest on the ThoughtWorks radar www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techni... As they point out, it's more relevant than ever in the era of AI generated code and tests. And of course the way to use it most effectively on the jvm is www.arcmutate.com #java #kotlin #ai

In short, a programming language is also about the ecosystem and tooling. JAVAPRO has just published the first part of my article series, focusing on the ecosystem. javapro.io/2026/04/16/k...

I worked on an XP team once where we genuinely had 100% test coverage. It was awesome, we could make changes so fast, and yes we still had the occasional live defect

Fans of Spec-Driven Development may believe they've found a kindred spirit in me as they hear me talk about Specification By Example. I'm looking forward to resetting some expectations. Ain't no PRD's or design "phases" in Jasonland.

🎙️ Agenda @emilybache.com — Technical Coaching as a Career Yoan Thirion — Outside-In Discovery Bhaskar Bharat Sawant — The Hidden Cost of "Just One More Fix" @raymyers.bsky.social — AI Hates Legacy Code 👥 Open-space sessions if you prefer interactive discussions www.eventbrite.com/e/mendercon-...

Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...