my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Speaking at PlatformCon Live Day London, 23 June: "Humans on the loop, not in it: Taking agentic engineering end to end." My experiments bringing the path to production inside the agentic loop with CD pipelines. Tickets nearly gone: platformcon.com/live-day-lon...

There are many things to critique about AI. But I think treating it as uniquely evil, and not just a continuation of technological innovation, gives it power it does not deserve. And it delegitimizes real, harder critiques when we seem to be grasping for reasons to hate it.

Third update to my article on "Maintainability sensors for coding agents": The test suite as a regression sensor. Assuming the tests are testing the right things (!), how complete are they? Are coverage metrics enough? (Spoiler alert: They are not) martinfowler.com/articles/sen...

I started an article on providing sensors about the code's maintainability to coding agents. Part 1 and 2 out so far, about static code analysis, coupling, and modularity review martinfowler.com/articles/sen...

What if you think of your LLM as a proxy crowd-sourcer playing Family Fortunes? It makes a _lot_ more sense. You ask: > How can I get this image to sit in the middle of the page as I scroll? Claude's training data says: > We asked 100 web developers how they would centre an image...

Stripe ships over a thousand AI-authored PRs a week. The pattern behind it has a name: the dark factory. The infrastructure factory is different. Here's what happens when the factory floor is your Pulumi state graph.

I want one

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Apropos of nothing, here is a list of things that sound way more exciting than they actually are - dog days - dragon fruit - helicopter parents - ghost writers - rat race - bath bombs - turbo tax - one horsepower - parachute pants - two party system - dog and pony show - electric slide

Neuromuncher, that should be. Weekly podcast wherein I describe my favorite snacks and local snackeries.

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.

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Attn British Airways: regarding not being able to let me check in online because: "Travel authorisation cannot be found for entry to the UK with the passport details provided." It's a UK passport. Pretty sure they let me in.

It’s been 10 years since I published Building Successful Communities of practice…. To celebrate I’ve published a second edition. Currently at a special price to pre-order (UK only) hellotacit.com/building-suc...

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...

The future is not pumping out slop until our software breaks under its own weight. Instead I think we use AI Agents to define a new SDLC. Larry Wall's virtues of a Perl programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris compel us to. /cc @bcantrill.bsky.social www.adamhjk.com/blog/lazines...

On the other hand, the "Austrian school" is basically a group of seasoned hackers and builders using simple primitives to create genuinely interesting systems. Pi is the engine behind OpenClaw, a product that took everyone by surprise, and now every company is scrambling to copy it.

"Hey look, I built my own wheel!!" has never been easier.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

i've watched @adamhjk.me's journey with AI and thought he'd be a good person to talk to about its impact on builders, and i was not disappointed. this was a very fun and interesting chat. redmonk.com/videos/adam-...

Looking for work. Will DevRel for coffee or wine 😁

The biggest leadership downgrade in the history of the world.

There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

A different perspective. Always helpful.

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Awesome photo! But contrary to some commenters I've seen on here; no, you don't see the ISS, or satellites. And no, LEO debris doesn't create a perceptible haze.

New article where I offer definitions & a mental model how to think about harness engineering as coding agent users. Building blocks at our disposal, dimensions and goals to consider; emerging practices, open questions; and of course, what role do humans play martinfowler.com/articles/har...

NEW POST @birgitta410.bsky.social wrote some initial thoughts about Harness Engineering last month. Since then she's been researching more and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding the topic. martinfowler.com/articles/har...

I know that for me, the only way I'm going to find out what I believe is by actually building things on that frontier. If you're feeling anxious about it, or uncertain - might I suggest you do the same? www.adamhjk.com/blog/as-we-b...

This

This post by @doctorow.pluralistic.net on corporate bullshit receptivity (pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/j...) has echos of @vgr.bsky.social's Gervais Principle (www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/t...). Sociopaths have high Organizational Bullshit Perception Scores, while the Clueless buy into it.

Apparently people who work at Palantir call themselves Hobbits?

Let's feed his notes into chatgpt and have it extrude the rest of the series. Can't be any worse than what Benioff & Weiss did with it.

I enjoyed reading an OpenAI team's report on building a "harness" for a no-manual-coding-allowed codebase. Refreshing to read concrete ideas about where the rigor might go, rather than just hoping “better models” will magically solve maintainability martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

I think one of our big problems is that we’re limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion

It's hard to find balanced opinions on AI coding. Lots of the people pushing the envelope on AI-Assisted Engineering also have somewhat bonkers AI-maximalist perspectives. Here's some people who're in the thick of it, advancing the field but who I also trust to bring a thoughtful, balanced take 🧵

argh. the thing is. vibecoding is so *fun*? it's so so fun. in his podcast with Ed Zitron this week, Cal Newport describes it as "a hobby, like making a model railway" and that is *exactly it*. it's really fun to make a thing with it. like whittling a wooden spoon and then you use the spoon.

You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government

v good point from the Economist Boss Class podcast: chess-playing programmes have been beating chess grand-masters for decades. But people are still watching humans playing chess not AIs. Also however fun F1 is, it's still not OK to compete in the 100m sprint by getting into a car

The post @systeminit.com folks have decided they don't want PRs on their open source project. They want descriptions of the changes contributors want, which the team can give to the agents to implement.

@adamhjk.me again.

Here's what @adamhjk.me is taking about today at #configmgtcamp. The rumours of @systeminit.com's demise seem to have been exaggerated

Yes! +100 every word of this article

Platform every time I use it: "You should pay for a subscription to get rid of these popups!" Me: Buys subscription Platform every time I use it: "You should upgrade your subscription to the family plan!" (My family will never use this platform)

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."--Mitch Ratcliffe, in Technology Review April 1992

What do you call a technology whose own creators can't distinguish it from magic?

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"Why is Claude Code better/worse than [other coding agent] - they’re both using the same models under the hood?" A reasonable question, so I spent some time reverse-engineering Claude Code's interactions with the model to illustrate why coding agent matters blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/12... 🧵...