Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
TL;DRGood developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how man...
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Martin Fowler Articles
Updated 1 min ago · 11 articles from Martin Fowler
Fragments: October 28
Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it l...
Fragments: October 21
Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part ...
Fragments: October 4
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a con...
Bliki: Sensible Default
A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such ...
Fragments: September 29
Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing t...
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Fragments: September 24
Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a fu...
Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
TL;DROr, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems I was on a panel ...
Fragments: September 1
Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag vario...
Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern
TL;DRWhy building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over the last six months....
Fragments: August 18
Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for t...
