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

Nikado A visual tool for the Mikado method. Decompose goals into sub-tasks and work from leaf nodes up.

So there it goes: Nikado, a free visual tool for the Mikado Method

You set a goal, break it into smaller tasks, and work from the leaves up

The whole graph lives in the URL: No sign-up, no backend, no data stored anywhere. It's just a tool, not a SaaS.

nikado.app

I built something 😄

Ever tried to make a big change in a complex codebase and ended up with a mess of half-done things everywhere?

Yeah, so there's that technique called "Mikado Method" to prevent that

But I couldn't find a satisfying tool to use. And paper has limits…

Design-First Collaboration Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment

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Rahul Garg uses a structured conversation with an AI agent that mirrors whiteboarding with a human pair: progressive levels of design alignment before any code, reducing cognitive load, and catching misunderstandings at the cheapest possible moment.

martinfowler.com/articles/red...

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Just saw an extended version

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”

security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

Pagination Demystified: 3 Layers You Shouldn't Mix Up - Full version

The DORA research found that there is NO TRADE-OFF BETWEEN SPEED & QUALITY
Teams with good scores on both, spend 44% more time on new features!!!

Read “Accelerate” by Nicole Forsgren et al.
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I have an answer for this now!

I've come to think of MCP as a presentation layer, more like HTML than JSON. Both MCP tools and the results returned should be useful when shoved into an LLM's context window.

You're kind of making a weird website specifically for LLMs.

"The corollary to Conway's Law is, you can actually change the architecture of a company just by changing how people talk to each other." 🤔🤯🥂

"The amount of electricity required to train DeepSeek-V3 would power the Bitcoin network for all of 5 minutes." #AI #Blockchain #Sustainability
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4349...

My notes on using Cursor:

- ask it to plan
- ask it to ask you questions
- make it learn from its mistakes: create cursor rules
- ask it to run tests, linters, etc.

Yesterday, someone shared a pretty good resource around testing. Because I'm nice, I'm sharing it with you too.

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.

Psychological safety REQUIRES:

* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down

Like Indiana Jones would say: “provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon musk gave at a post inauguration rally last month”s, I hate these guys.

4 slides: Complexity is not the problem Ambiguity is Simplicity does not solve ambiguity Clarity does

As ever, my WIAD talk slides from years ago

Here's a thread to collect all the refactoring moves I have animated… so I can refer to them with a single URL 😄

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So a quick rule-of-thumb from a throughput POV is:
* Stable high-traffic workloads => containers
* Bursty, occasional workloads => lambda

And don't forget about caching. It's literally a cheat code for building scalable and high-performance systems!

Mind blown (about Rust)!
> the problems with data races and memory safety arise when you have both aliasing (shared data) and mutability. The functional approach to solving this problem is to remove mutability. Rust’s approach would be to remove aliasing.
smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

Why Scrum is Stressing You Out:
Most Scrum implementations are a hybrid of #Waterfall and #Scrum.
As a result, there’s always a Waterfall-like, big-bang deadline quietly lurking in the background.
#Agile
https://buff.ly/3MR47MI

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.

This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.

charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations

LLMs are a great help for experienced developers but a curse for junior devs. Where do we go from there? This #MustRead article gives a fascinating perspective on the future of our craft. #AI #Programming

til that the name "David Mayer" breaks ChatGPT. If your prompt includes the name "David Mayer" or you try to get ChatGPT to say "David Mayer," the chat *always* crashes.

It's like the AI in Neuromancer, which is banned forever from knowing the single password that will unleash its true potential.