Posts

Accumulated ignorance at scale

What do we do about tech debt and code review in a world where AI both writes the code and reviews it?

The Tyranny of the Plan

A transcription of Mary Poppendieck's famous talk on the fragility of plans

What the next year of software development looks like

In 2026, agentic development becomes the new normal.

AI like a bicycle

Generative AI should amplify intent, not dictate it

Code style is a mirror, not a metric

The myth of objectively good code

Why I estimate

Keep the process, kill the number

Code Wants To Go Home

The Happy Gilmore theory of SDLC

A Practical Process Algorithm For Killing Code

How to deprecate all your systems without burning all your bridges

You Should Take Event Sourcing More Seriously

Lessons from building on facts instead of state

The This-Isn't-Possible Smell Test

Inferring what's possible from what's probable

The Move Faster Manifesto

Lessons for shipping software quickly by skipping the grind

Feature Branching Considered Harmful (2017)

You can ship software fast and safely without pull requests by working on main

Devops Is Not a Job Title (2017)

Devops is about bridging cultural gaps to ship faster, not putting people in new boxes

Thoughtworks and the invention of modern software engineering