Please join us in celebrating the newest presenter to join us on the Modern Software Engineering channel... @tastapod.com (Daniel Terhorst-North! 🎉 Dan is a technology and organizational change specialist who has been coaching, coding and consulting for over 30 years... 1/2

There is not a single reason to have shared state between tests. Ever. The fact that we are running hundreds of tests against a single app is honestly ridiculous and throws any hope of isolation out the window.

New Danish research on menopause has just been published. They talked to 153.400 from 45 to 59, and the results have surprised the researchers: Only 3% reported no symptoms at all! While menopause is not a disease, it has huge effect on health and quality of life. Private AND work life!

Unmesh Joshi finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes illusory if they shortcut the essential learning loop of our professional practice. martinfowler.com/articles/llm...

Exploring how AI changes the cost of good engineering practices. Some things that used to feel expensive now feel almost free. 📝 www.eferro.net/2025/11/when... #AI #SoftwareEngineering

I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming": coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...

It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI: accu.org/journals/ove...

Attaching a code-generating firehose to our development process that was largely trained on short-form code examples means we need to really stay on top of the bigger picture as it emerges one test and one refactoring at a time. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...

After a year of building AI-assisted and agentic testing platforms, I'm sharing where AI testing tools fail and what actually works. forge-quality.dev/articles/ai-...

AI-assisted coding is like the blind men and the elephant. Everyone's experiencing it from different vantage points. Makes it genuinely hard to know whose experience is worth learning from. Sketched a graph to illustrate & wrote about the patterns I'm seeing. blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/26/y...

That's to say, teams that struggle with refactoring skills are also teams that most likely struggle with design skills, because tapping into a rich pool of domain and design insights generated as you refactor in small, safe steps is out of their reach. 2/2

“AI Models Can Now Predict What Customers Would Buy—Almost Like Humans” Now, can they? TL;DR: Nope. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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I have previously worked in an architecture team and it was great. AND...

When we're working without "AI" coding assistants, it's important to keep on top of the maintainability of our code, refactoring to remove any problems as we go. When we're working *with* LLMs, it's absolutely essential. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/t...

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This week @emilybache.com is talking to us about the difference between DESIGN and ARCHITECTURE. How they're different to one another, and why that is a GOOD THING. Join Emily tomorrow from 7pm (UK) on Modern Software Engineering.

3. Solar will not solve every problem. But the biggest problem is that our civilisation relies on digging up fossil carbon and burning it, which is destabilising the climate, which multiplies a lot of very unpleasant threats. Solar is part of stopping us needing to do that.

i released a new blog post discussing that using genai agents for coding – while impressive in their capabilities – primarily seem to be a technological distraction from underlying, deeper problems (again): www.ufried.com/blog/ai_assi.... enjoy if you like ... ;)

Join us for a day of coding excellence -> Global Day of Coderetreat 2025 in Vienna -> insights.squer.io/gdcr-2025 #gdcr #coderetreat

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

I’ve heard @tdpauw.bsky.social talk about this before, and it clicked instantly — totally agree. But every time I share this idea, people look at me like I’ve just declared code reviews are a myth from ancient folklore. 😂

I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

I added three new tips to my article on "How to Read More Books". verraes.net/2012/12/2012... I've been growing that list since 2012!

What the budding turnaround looks like is that China has since early 2024 covered its energy demand growth almost fully from clean energy - for the first time without a sharp slowdown in demand growth. A great achievement given rapid growth and vast scale of China's energy use.

I'm hoping to find a way to give real-time feedback when I'm not there, because after-the-fact reviews miss tonnes and have little effect on habits. A more sophisticated version of my t-shirt that says "Now run your tests" :-)

On this day, 11th October 1982, the Mary Rose was raised from the Solent in one of the largest maritime archaeological projects the world has ever known. This was viewed by 50 million people worldwide - were you watching? #WhereWereYouIn82 Find out more - maryrose.org/discover/his...

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

Engineers like challenges, but we tend to be selective about what we consider a valid challenge. "I need to build this despite shit code /politics / lack of resources..." The mindset switch is that all these things are not inhibitors to solving the problem, they are part of the problem definition.

What does the latest DORA report reveal about AI-assisted software development? In this video, I react to some of the findings and explore the impact of AI, AI coding assistants and tools on software development. On @modernswe.bsky.social now ➡️ youtu.be/CoGO6s7bS3A

Assigning agency to techniques seems to me to be an attempt to avoid responsibility. “I used TDD & got poorly designed/unreliable/hard to understand code—not my fault.”

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work? I propose "vibe engineering"! simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...

There's a free Global Coding Dojo this Wednesday, 11:00am Pacific, 15:00 UTC for anyone wanting to learn or practice TDD. Perfect for any skill level - beginners warmly welcomed! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-coding-dojo-tickets-1114576240539

So will "A.I." be covered in my code craft training going forward? Absolutely. Not to teach how to use them, but to teach how they need to get all their ducks in a row - continuous testing, code review and integration, good separation of concerns etc - before they even *think* about it.

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️ Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

Forests are important. Here’s why 🧵1/n Forests - make shade & cool the surface - capture CO2 - purify the air - make clouds & rain - prevent drought - prevent flooding - prevent erosion - and a lot more @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Check out the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how we can make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real, with existing technology: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

One serving of non-red meat per day, one serving of dairy per day, and one serving of red meat a week is unbelievably reasonable – and it makes you, your family, and the planet healthier.

🚀 𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴—𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 🚀 I got a thoughtful reply on one of my posts: we’re in a transition phase where LLMs cover 80% of the work, and once the last 20% is solved, we’ll just be writing apps in natural language instead of code. It’s a smart take—and it’s also something I hear a lot.

I enjoyed this interview about India's clean energy transition. Very encouraging- solar + batteries is cheaper than coal now open.spotify.com/episode/0qfD...

The idea of AI as a new abstraction for software keeps coming back – prompts as the source of truth, code as an artefact. Why it won't work any time soon, even if things like non-determinsim and hallucination become solved problems.

Refactoring is a key skill for good software design and it's also something you can get better at through practice. Check out my newly-published video training course which has lots of examples and exercises you can try courses.cd.training/courses/refa...

"There are," the swordmaster said with emphasis on every word, "many problems that can not be solved with a sword." "Yes, but if you do attempt to solve them with a sword," the former student said, "you will get new problems, which can be solved with a sword." "Yes. That's why they sent for me."

Are you struggling to find time to mentor the junior developers in your team? Do hold regular "learning hour" sessions with your team, and train skills like #TDD and #Refactoring. Next week - #trainthetrainer course "Deliver Learning Hours" - sammancoaching.org/training/del...

Have been looking forward to this talk coming out - had so much fun playing with the loopy causal loop diagrams, check it out 😀 Special thanks to @paulrayner.bsky.social for feedback and advice the night before this one! @dddeu.bsky.social #systemsthinking

Ergo three-quarters of the industry are not yet in a position to realistically benefit from AI-assisted coding. 5/5

Some updates to my site: ted.dev • Added slides to my talks page for "Testable Architecture" at ted.dev/talks/ • Added the Mob Mentality Show podcast (appearing with John Wilson, and Janis Kampe) to my podcasts page: ted.dev/podcasts/po...

Please join us in celebrating a new presenter joining us on Modern Software Engineering, Sam Newman Technologist, independent consultant, speaker, and author of Building Microservices and Monolith To Microservices. Welcome, Sam.

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IDEA – nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions