Martin Fowler May 5

Fragments: May 5

Over the last couple of months Rahul Garg published a series of posts here on how to reduce the friction in AI-assisted programming. To make it easier to put...

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Martin Fowler Apr 29

Fragments: April 29

Chris Parsons has updated his guide on using AI to code. This is his third update, what I like about it is that he gives a lot of concrete information about ...

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Martin Fowler Apr 28

Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)

LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. The internal IT organization in Thoughtworks has been...

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Martin Fowler Apr 21

Fragments: April 21

Last week Thoughtworks released the 34th volume of our Technology Radar. This radar is our biannual survey of our experience of the technology scene, highlig...

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Martin Fowler Apr 14

Fragments: April 14

I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there host Gergely Orosz interviewed Kent Beck and myself on stage. The video runs for about...

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Martin Fowler Apr 9

Fragments: April 9

I mostly link to written material here, but I’ve recently listened to two excellent podcasts that I can recommend. Anyone who regularly reads these fragments...

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Martin Fowler Apr 2

Fragments: April 2

As we see LLMs churn out scads of code, folks have increasingly turned to Cognitive Debt as a metaphor for capturing how a team can lose understanding of wha...

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Martin Fowler Mar 26

Fragments: March 26

Anthropic carried a study, done by getting its model to interview some 80,000 users to understand their opinions about AI, what they hope from it, and what t...

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Martin Fowler Mar 19

Fragments: March 19

David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of cod...

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Martin Fowler Mar 16

Fragments: March 16

Annie Vella did some research into how 158 professional software engineers used AI, her first question was: Are AI tools shifting where engineers actually sp...

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Martin Fowler Mar 10

Fragments: March 10

Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data I agree with Brian Marick’s response No such story should be published without a c...

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Martin Fowler Mar 4

Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

There's been much talk recently about how AI agents affect the workflow loops of software development. Kief Morris believes the answer is to focus on the goa...

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