Martin Fowler Aug 19, 6:30 PM

Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern

TL;DRWhy building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software I’ve noticed an interesting gap opening up over the last six months....

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Martin Fowler Aug 18, 3:04 PM

Fragments: August 18

Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for t...

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Martin Fowler Aug 4, 12:08 PM

Fragments: August 4

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face. This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up t...

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Martin Fowler Jul 31, 1:48 PM

The Conductor Developer

TL;DRWhy I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that ...

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Martin Fowler Jul 30, 1:04 PM

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure...

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Martin Fowler Jul 28, 12:32 PM

Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

TL;DRI have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinkin...

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Martin Fowler Jul 21, 1:13 PM

Fragments: July 21

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks repor...

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Martin Fowler Jul 16, 1:25 PM

The Archaeologist’s Copilot

When people think of legacy modernization, most folks aren't imagining the target environment will be Java 8. But this was the challenge facing Nik Malykhin ...

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Martin Fowler Jul 13, 12:51 PM

Fragments: July 13

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Ha...

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Martin Fowler Jul 6, 12:53 PM

Fragments: July 6

Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat, this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentar...

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Martin Fowler Jun 2, 3:21 PM

Fragments: June 2

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated...

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Martin Fowler May 27, 7:40 PM

Fragments: May 27

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer t...

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