Martin Fowler 12 hr ago

Three more static code analysis sensors

Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing better modularity. Computational sensors...

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Martin Fowler 1d ago

Maintainability sensors for coding agents

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a sys...

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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 12

What is Code

Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. Will there even be source code in the future? To wrestle with this question, we have to understand what ...

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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 May 5

Bliki: Mythical Man Month

In the early 1960s, Fred Brooks managed the development of IBM's System/360 computer systems. After it was done he penned his thoughts in the book The Mythic...

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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 11

Alan Turing play in Cambridge MA

Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code. It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my pr...

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