Martin Fowler 2d ago

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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Martin Fowler Mar 10

Fragments: March 10

Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data I agree with Brian Marick’s response No such story should be published without a c...

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Martin Fowler Mar 4

Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

There's been much talk recently about how AI agents affect the workflow loops of software development. Kief Morris believes the answer is to focus on the goa...

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Martin Fowler Feb 25

Fragments: February 25

I don’t tend to post links to videos here, as I can’t stand watching videos to learn about things. But some talks are worth a watch, and I do suggest this ov...

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Martin Fowler Feb 24

Knowledge Priming

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patte...

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Martin Fowler Feb 23

Fragments: February 23

Do you want to run OpenClaw? It may be fascinating, but it also raises significant security dangers. Jim Gumbley, one of my go-to sources on security, has so...

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Martin Fowler Feb 19

Fragments: February 19

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe. I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design, since its very earliest...

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Martin Fowler Feb 18

Fragments: February 18

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat  ❄                ❄ We were tired after the event, but our mar...

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Martin Fowler Feb 17

Bliki: Agentic Email

I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's ...

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