Martin Fowler 3d ago

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 3d ago

Bliki: Mythical Man Month

In the early 1960s, Fred Brooks managed the development of IBM's System/360 computer systems. After it was done he penned his thoughts in the book The Mythic...

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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 11

Alan Turing play in Cambridge MA

Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code. It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my pr...

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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 8

Feedback Flywheel

Rahul Garg finishes his series on reducing the friction in AI-Assisted Development. He proposes a structured feedback practice that harvests learnings from A...

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Martin Fowler Apr 7

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

Modern hardware is remarkably fast, but software often fails to leverage it. Caer Sanders has found it valuable to guide their work with mechanical sympathy ...

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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 Apr 2

Harness engineering for coding agent users

Last month Birgitta Böckeler wrote some initial thoughts about the recently developed notion of Harness Engineering. She's been researching and thinking more...

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