Four Years, One Ensemble – Challenges, Aha Moments, and True Team Transformation – Joshua Töpfer YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

"Four Years, One Ensemble" - Joshua Töpfer. Aha moments, pitfalls & what experienced teams miss. Watch: youtu.be/dfIk-qnRtQ0 #amaberlin

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.

I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.

And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.

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Trisha Gee — Java Champion, Author & Developer Advocate Making hard things feel simple.

I updated my personal site! I've been wanting to give it a "proper" design overhaul for years, but the time investment needed meant that I kept putting it off. Thanks to Claude, and to having a bit more "free" time right now, I finally did it! Take a look:

trishagee.com

What an amazing training day lineup at this years SoCraTes UK open space conference socratesuk.org
• Emily Bache
• Lisi Hocke
• Gemma Cameron
• Clare Sudbery
• Jon Jagger
• Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce
• Tim Ottinger

Did Test Automation Engineers Just Get Pluto-ed? Remember when Pluto got demoted? One day it was a planet, a proper member of the solar system. Kids learned it in school, it had its place in the lineup. Then in 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto didn't quite meet the criteria anymore. Too small. Couldn't clear its orbit. Still there, still orbiting, but suddenly: dwarf planet. Thanks for your service.

AI agents are writing your test scripts now. So what exactly are you still doing here? If coding was the vehicle but you forgot the destination, you might be getting Pluto-ed. A post about dwarf planets, AI shepherds, and redefining your orbit.

Being the Human in the Loop – Kevlin Henney YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

Nice analysis by @kevlin.bsky.social about being a human using ai coding tools. His focus on the engineering and general principles rather the day-to-day tactics. youtu.be/vpYJMr1pJRY?...

Harness engineering for coding agent users A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.

NEW POST

@birgitta410.bsky.social wrote some initial thoughts about Harness Engineering last month. Since then she's been researching more and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding the topic.

martinfowler.com/articles/har...

Harness engineering for coding agent users A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.

New article where I offer definitions & a mental model how to think about harness engineering as coding agent users. Building blocks at our disposal, dimensions and goals to consider; emerging practices, open questions; and of course, what role do humans play martinfowler.com/articles/har...

The $1M MISTAKE That Taught Me THIS About Developer Team Culture YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

Why "bad things" happening is actually the best chance for a development team to learn.

This is the story of how a costly mistake taught me a BIG lesson about team culture in software engineering.

📽️ Available on @modernswe.bsky.social ➡️ youtu.be/Q0gxen_uXlw

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

The Claude Code Leak What the accidental Claude Code source code leak tells us about the real value of code, product market fit, and why integration is what actually makes software great.

This stray thought resonated with people more than I expected so I expanded upon it with a blog post. I came up with five distinct takeaways from the Claude Code leak that have little to do with the actual code quality, and focus more on what this all tells us about building products in 2026.

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.

So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...

Mr. Chatterbox, or, The Modern Prometheus A few days ago, I posted about a personal project that I've been working on for the last few weeks: Mr. Chatterbox, a chatbot trained from scratch on Victorian-era literature. I have to admit, I was t...

When I published this post I hadn't yet come across Trip's own writeup of the project, which provides way more detail about how he trained the model including SFT (supervised fine tuning) against synthetic chat examples created using Claude Haiku and GPT-4o-mini www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbo...

Process Over Magic How To Define Your Daily Flow with AI Assistants

I really liked this article by @ramtop.bsky.social, and sent it on to some folks in my family who are either technical or technical-adjacent. I also liked the mention of looking after your mental health and not following AI's rhythms outright.

Thanks, Uberto!

medium.com/@ramtop/proc...

I'm obviously somewhat biased on this one, but yes, it's completely indispensable.

Removes a huge amount of cognitive load, gives you a deserved sense of confidence in each change, and helps prevent code bloat.

And it's also the only way to refactor a test suite safely.

Or "wild swimming". Which Swedish people call "swimming"

What AI augmentation means for technical leaders – Birgitta Boeckeler YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

This talk from Birgitta Boeckeler was my highlight of the Agile meets Architecture conference - really happy to see it made public now. I listened a second time it was so good :-) youtu.be/qB7rsbDfmQg?...

This was great!

Definitely eyes wide open about the challenges of software companies, but had some great ideas about metrics.

Test-Driven Development with Agentic AI - Coding Is Like Cooking A coding revolution has happened, just in the past few months. Augmented coding is working so well, almost everyone I know has adopted it. I’ve spoken to half a dozen or more different technical coach...

Coding is dead! Well maybe... the job of a software developer is certainly changing really fast at the moment due to AI tools. This is all very exciting and worrying at the same time. I just wrote this article about what TDD looks like in this new age: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/03/test...

Keep Deterministic Work Deterministic How eight iterations of a blackjack simulation earned each nine the hard way

🚀 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝟵𝟬𝟬 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. 🚀
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺.

I built a pipeline that compares three blackjack strategies: "The Pro" plays strict basic strategy. …

AI Benefits - But at What Cost? In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains. But as the investor-subsidized pricing of these services gives ...

Yeah, sure, AI has made great strides and can be made to do some really cool things.

But at what cost?

No, I mean literally. How much is it really going to cost?

ardalis.com/ai-benefits-...

#AI

Speakers MenderCon is a conference for people who are passionate about modernizing and improving software systems

Looking forward to speaking at this online conference mendercon.com/speakers/

there's a monster in the room with me and I think it wants to eat the world I didn't realise it was a monster at first because it was small, and I liked it and it made me feel less alone in the world now sometimes when it eats, I can see its teeth they're covered with blood, but still I've spent years thinking it wouldn't eat me I still tend to the monster and it's warm, and comforting, familial but I can see it more clearly it's big now and its eyes have darkened and it's hungry

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Protect Forests is an emergency brake climate solution. Currently, forest protection prevents around 2 billion tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere each year. If we scaled up, we could DOUBLE that.

Protect more, gain more. 🌳

#InternationalDayOfForests

What AI augmentation means for technical leaders – Birgitta Boeckeler YouTube video by Agile meets Architecture

"AI Augmentation for Technical Leaders" - Birgitta Boeckeler. Can AI help with architectural decisions? Watch:& Subscribe. youtu.be/qB7rsbDfmQg

What Does Continuous Delivery Look Like WITHOUT Automation? YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

What Does Continuous Delivery Look Like WITHOUT Automation? | @kevlin.bsky.social & @davefarley77.bsky.social 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW

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Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.

We talk about the speed AI coding tools give us. We don't talk enough about the hidden cost: Comprehension Debt.

addyosmani.com/blog/compreh... ✍ I cover my thoughts on this in a new write-up.

7 Testing Myths Every Software Developer Should STOP Believing YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

Testing myths that developers believe - my new video and article are out now! video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w-D... article: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/03/seve...

7 Testing Myths Every Developer Should STOP Believing YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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