Martin Fowler 6d ago

Fragments: May 14

Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk ab...

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Martin Fowler 6d ago

Bliki: Interrogatory LLM

When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of ...

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Martin Fowler May 5

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 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 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 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 Mar 26

Fragments: March 26

Anthropic carried a study, done by getting its model to interview some 80,000 users to understand their opinions about AI, what they hope from it, and what t...

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Martin Fowler Mar 19

Fragments: March 19

David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of cod...

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Martin Fowler Mar 16

Fragments: March 16

Annie Vella did some research into how 158 professional software engineers used AI, her first question was: Are AI tools shifting where engineers actually sp...

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