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• Post #4459949

  @ciaran@mcnulty.social I've only been trying for 3 weeks and I suspect it's going to take a lot longer, too

• Post #4416008

  Quick shameless plug for my Code Craft & AI workshop on Tues Oct 6th at 18:45 BST. Just £99 + VAT. First one sold out in < 5 days! 30% already sold for this second one. Do practices like TDD, refactoring & CI help when we're using AI? You betcha! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/codemanship/2324138

• Post #4410501

  In today's episode of "Spec-Driven Development isn't Waterfall"... "Agile never said to do that. It said deliver in small increments and learn as you go, not skip understanding what you're building. SDD just asks that your team fully understands what it's building before it starts." U-huh?

• Post #4410338

  @pgoetz@mastodon.social You mean if we were working on multiple unconnected problems at the same time?

• Post #4390926

  The dominant theoretical model in software development over the last few decades has been systems theory. But this is the factory metaphor again. I increasingly think in terms of learning systems and information theory. I don't optimise for "flow". I optimise for learning. They're related, but not necessarily the same thing. It's quite possible - common, even - to optimise one at the expense of the other.

• Post #4390830

  "But with AI, some of the skills of technical management are becoming part of the job: defining the problem, decomposing work, providing context, reviewing output, spotting unintended consequences and maintaining a coherent architecture." You misspelled "micromanagement"

• Post #4383355

  So we've had "Barbenheimer". What will this summer's blockbusters be abbreviated to?

• Post #4383280

  Germans have a big advantage in those "Can you describe in one word...?" questions

• Post #4379409

  IME, speculative generality is driven by folks who don't refactor much, or... well, at all, let's be honest.

• Post #4370362

  In today's episode of "Agile is dead. Instead, "...

• Post #4322636

  Due to demand, I've scheduled a second Code Craft & AI workshop on Tues Oct 6th at 18:45 BST. Join me and learn how classic software engineering principles and practices are not just compatible with AI, but *essential* It's funny how that turned out 🙂 https://www.tickettailor.com/events/codemanship/2324138

• Post #4322570

  Filter pronouncements by AI vendors through a lens of the biggest sunk cost in business history.

• Post #4313156

  Extending the horizon of agentic coding requires much, much stronger automated quality gates. But how do we gauge how strong those gates are in practice? Van Halen had the answer. https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/do-your-quality-gates-see-the-brown-mms-in-the-bowl/

• Post #4312579

  I find it very telling that the people promoting their reusable agent harnesses and the people now saying that you should delete everything and start again with each new model are the same people.

• Post #4310625

  The first one sold out in < 5 days, so I've scheduled another Code Craft & AI workshop on Tuesday October 6th at 18:45 BST. Still just £99 + VAT. If you're tired of the hype and the hopium, and are looking for a practical, *evidence-based* approach to taming the code-generating firehose, this is the workshop for you. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/codemanship/2324138

• Post #4307470

  I've been arguing for many years that the team is the real product of software development, learning is the real outcome, and that organisations need to optimise for *that* Software, and its impact in the real world, is an ephemeral byproduct of learning. But teams aren't usually seen as an asset by management. When the software's shipped, orgs will often throw away the toy and play with the box.

• Post #4293851

  Shut down any "Elon Musk predicts..." thread with this simple reply: "Was he on Mars when he said it?"

• Post #4293705

  Something something new model just dropped something gamechanger something. Thanks for coming to my TED something.

• Post #4284283

  Right then. Let's finish up the week with some Win https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0GB_r-0J80

• Post #4267855

  The original sin of software development

• Post #4251977

  I can't disprove that you saw a ghost or a flying saucer or that you achieved 10x productivity using an LLM. But I don't need to. The burden of proof is on the one making the claim. Hitchen's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

• Post #4228845

  On the one hand, we've got folks claiming productivity gains of up to 10x using AI in software development. On the other, we've got folks saying most teams aren't getting any kind of overall boost from it. Who should we believe? Science answers these questions with data. And given the very high - economy and environment-warpingly high - stakes, I choose to be led by the data.

• Post #4189508

  You'd probably be a bit alarmed if your doctor had a Kanban board that showed you in the "Done" column just because the medicine had been dispensed.

• Post #4161108

  There isn't a shred of hard evidence for any dev team getting 10x, 5x or even just 2x productivity using AI.

• Post #4142271

  @t_var_s@phpc.social Well, it'll be on Zoom. But there's a web interface.

• Post #4135386

  There's no such thing as a "CRUD application". Whatever you're using that data for, *that's* the application.

• Post #4129487

  Software releases are questions, and only reality has the answers. Reality moves at its own pace and does not care about your ambition to 10x the process. Ship 10x the software and you'll get 90% of those questions going unanswered until it's too late to change course.

• Post #4129258

  Dear AI boosters: posting "the J-curve is real" is not, in fact, evidence that the J-curve is real.

• Post #4118897

  "Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority" - The Second Doctor, The Wheel In Space

• Post #4118477

  Crikey. 50% of tickets sold in 4 days. This might be the only evidence-based training workshop on AI-assisted software development, and I'd figured very few folks want to hear it. Perhaps I've been spending too much time on LinkedIn. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/codemanship/2324138