Accumulated ignorance at scale
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8 min read
What do we do about tech debt and code review in a world where AI both writes the code and reviews it?
Writing
The Tyranny of the Plan
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30 min read
A transcription of Mary Poppendieck's famous talk on the fragility of plans
What the next year of software development looks like
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11 min read
In 2026, agentic development becomes the new normal.
AI like a bicycle
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2 min read
Generative AI should amplify intent, not dictate it
Code style is a mirror, not a metric
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7 min read
The myth of objectively good code
Why I estimate
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8 min read
Keep the process, kill the number.
Code Wants To Go Home
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2 min read
The Happy Gilmore theory of SDLC
A Practical Process Algorithm For Killing Code
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3 min read
How to deprecate all your systems without burning all your bridges
You Should Take Event Sourcing More Seriously
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14 min read
Lessons from building on facts instead of state
The This-Isn't-Possible Smell Test
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2 min read
Inferring what's possible from what's probable
The Move Faster Manifesto
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6 min read
Lessons for shipping software quickly by skipping the grind
Feature Branching Considered Harmful (2017)
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3 min read
Devops Is Not a Job Title (2017)
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3 min read
Thoughtworks and the invention of modern software engineering
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16 min read