As they say: "Planning is essential. Plans are useless" AI-tools help you skip the planning, and go straight to generating the plans! 🥳🧠

I struggle to articulate the depth of ignorance, vacuousness, arrogance, contempt and devaluation of human beings that is imbued in statements like "AI agents are your new co-workers".

At its core #sociotechnical systemdesign is about a holistic democratisation of work. "Not many people know that."

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. ...

Regardless of how you produce source code in 2026, how do you know that you are implementing the right thing on purpose? Going 10x-20x faster on the wrong things is wrong. Conventional approaches are completely backwards. Make #DDDesign your differentiator: 23-26 March kalele.io/iddd-workshop/

Jeg la ut en liten tekst om KrF og Bufdirs transveileder på Facebook i går. Blikk ba om å få republisere den. Og det fikk de selvsagt. "Personlig er jeg for en fakta- og verdibasert tilnærming til spørsmålet om transfolks rettigheter. Og det grunnleggende faktumet er dette: Transfolk finnes."

Generating code was never the goal. The goal was to solve problems. I tried my best to avoid writing code by leveraging existing solutions or reframing the problem. Writing code was always a last resort and a liability. If I was going to write code, then I was going to do it right.

Resistance gets treated as a problem to overcome — when it's actually the most valuable signal in the room. When someone says "that won't work," they're surfacing a constraint, a risk, or a piece of context that no one else has. Dismissing it doesn't make it disappear....

This talk explores how architectural qualities—such as scalability, composability, reliability, and observability—can be transposed onto social systems. By jointly optimizing both sides of the mirror, organizations can foster collaboration, innovation, and resilience. 🎬 buff.ly/LPn94u0 #DDDEU

When code can be generated fast with AI, understanding the problem and getting the architecture right becomes even more critical than it already was. I've been watching teams struggle with this for 15 years. ...

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ALL THE CURE FANS AROUND THIS WORLD WHO CAME TO OUR LOST WORLD SHOWS AND ENJOYED OUR LOST WORLD MUSIC; WITHOUT YOU, NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE. THANK YOU 3/3

On the topic of "LLMs are just another layer of abstraction, like compilers, and prompts are the new source code"...

It is a settled thing, I think, that you won't have as good memory for something you didn't write yourself. This would be true if I handed you a list and asked you to read it passively vs write it yourself and rehearse it with quizzing. This is basic stuff. I don't need 10 million AI studies on it

Microsodft dropping -10% because they said 45% of their future cloud business will be from OpenAI and the market assumed they’ll never get the money is a watershed moment for the AI bubble.

Product teams forecast by feature. Finance by period. The disconnect? Not tooling. Flow. Flow Finance: 2-day training for senior leaders to redesign finance ops that scale with how companies actually work. Small cohorts. Hands-on with peers. Link: tally.so/r/xXJLMy #finops #leadership

🎉 10 Years of DDD Europe! Product manager and DDD community builder Zsófia Herendi reflects on her journey with DDD Europe since 2018—from a first moment when organisers turned a casual suggestion into reality, to watching hands-on sessions become the heart of the conference. 📖

🎬 This talk with Andrew Harmel-Law takes inspiration from the book section “Constructive Anarchism: Alternative Communities and Programs” that covers the *how* of anarchist organisation:

Just saw Mark Carney's full appearance at Davos 😍🤩 You should too! Go Canada 🇨🇦 www.youtube.com/live/miM4ur5...

Bearing in mind that human availability is constrained, if the cost of generating code plummeted, then at the same time the cost of (human) review skyrocketed. As those costs shoot up, you tend to have less of it per unit of code.

And finally, about 250 milliseconds before midnight on December 31st - quite literally in the blink of an eye - we see the birth of modern computing.

NewCrafts is taking a break in 2026 and will be back in 2027. After 10+ years of sharpening software craft, we're pausing to reflect on what craft means in the age of AI. Paris workshops continue. DDD Europe awaits in June. Full story: ncrafts.io

It is up to us to hold our industry to a higher standard, not just relying on AI tools to write the future of software, while we passively sit by. It has always been crucial for engineers to evolve their understanding of the fundamental principles and now is no different.

Nice to see a consultancy promote this 😀👍

New blog post (Norwegian): If your company is serious about people being the core assets and wants their engagement in your vision and goals, sociotechnical system design is the way. Bonus: better productivity, quality, and sustainable cost reductions. #SocioTechnical #OpenSystems #OrgDesign

New blog post (Norwegian): If your company is serious about people being the core assets and wants their engagement in your vision and goals, sociotechnical system design is the way. Bonus: better productivity, quality, and sustainable cost reductions. #SocioTechnical #OpenSystems #OrgDesign

New blog post! Covering tools for groups like the Architecture Advice Process, Team Topologies and Event Storming. This is part 3 of a series on making architectural decisions Questions, feedback, etc most welcome www.roundcrisis.com/2026/01/15/m...

Arguing with someone that use an #LLM feels like being attacked by an extreme gish gallop. It's overwhelming and so hard to counter. If only it could be trusted but more often then not you are fighting Brandolini's Law as well. Suspect many give up, sadly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga...

Missed Krisztina Hirth's session on bringing domain knowledge into software? She shares practical techniques for real DDD. Rewatch it on our website: buff.ly/MZ8Cn4i Or listen as a podcast.

Here is the first talk from 2026 by Chris Simon. He will demonstrates the building of a range of causal feedback loops to visualise the underlying causes of the problems. 🎬

I'm going to get yelled at for this post, but here goes: I've been thinking about companies dragging people back into the office, kicking and screaming. 1/12

Food for thought: You, or your team, cannot be truly autonomous if all you do is fulfil a function.

We really need to come up with better metaphors for AI agents than junior developers and interns. It’s far more of a reflection of how disrespectfully we treat those roles than it is a useful metaphor for how agents behave

OKRs are ripe for disruption as strategy theater.

If you feel that your goal is to be right, then you are wrong. Listen to Kristzina talk about her experience as a facilitating architect!

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

My book, Facilitating Software Architecture has been included in the Gartner 2026 Reading Guide for Software Architects and Engineers by Peter Hyde. 😱🎉 Being selected is both humbling and energizing. Thank you everyone who contributed to what became the book. 📚

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

The best way to split a monolith is to first put that monolith aside. It might be counterintuitive, but before you decompose the legacy system, it is important to understand what the problem is that the system was built for. domain-driven-transformation.com

'Drawing [isn’t] just for “artists” [..]. Think of it as a way of observing the world and learning' — Anne Quito #AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 1: Draw a Bicycle (and sketch a key mechanism) www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/...

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

Before you close your laptop for the weekend, take a quick look at what's waiting for you at NewCrafts next November: youtu.be/bQg1omXvmzY. Wishing you a rejuvenating break!

The Structure of Wholes – Angyal (1939) stream.syscoi.com/2025/12/05/t...

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Facilitating an environment where contribution is safe and encouraged doesn't just improve the product; it allows you to continuously refine your own mental models. What specific techniques do you use to ensure the quietest experts in the room are heard during design sessions?

The art and skills for delivering software in much more smaller incremental steps were lost with the global adoption of Pull Requests.

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 future of software development is software developers.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Swedish writer Fritiof Nilsson Piraten’s gravestone inscription says: ‘Here below are the ashes of a man who had the habit of putting everything off until tomorrow. But in his last days he improved, and did actually die on 31 January 1972’. (📷: jorchr)