Tetris and the art of software development
Jon Ayre What has playing Tetris got to do with software development? Quite a lot as it turns out, and not just as something to kill time while you're waiting for your…
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That’s not code – it’s hopes and prayers
Regardless of the language you're using, if what you write describes accurately and unambiguously what a machine needs to do, you're writing code.
SaaS providers and the Jekyll & Hyde dilemma
Companies like Anthropic have one advantage in the world of SaaS. They're developing a product that serves their own Industry sector. This is a very rare situation and it's why…
Change is coming – but not as fast as you think
You think AI is going to completely change business in 6 months. I know a company that's still replacing lotus notes and another that uses carbon paper to make triplicate…
Fixing tech debt is never a Jira ticket
One of the most common complaints from development teams is that they're never given time to address technical debt. Every ticket is a feature change or bug fix, and never…
Tearing down the software development walls
In software development, the handoff of work from Product Manager to Engineer to QA was always an anti-pattern. It's a shame it's taken AI to wake people up to that…
Money, money, money, or burn baby burn?
The AI cost issue is already rearing its head. People are using workarounds, and AI companies aren't even charging a fraction of what it costs to run the models. What…
It’s English Jim, but not as we know it
If you think talking in plain English to an LLM (large language model) will produce a coded solution that does what you want, does it well and will stand the…
The software engineer is dead, long live the software engineer!
The IT industry is only ever as good as the software it produces. There has always been great software, and there has also always been a lot of bad software.
More haste less speed, the road to software purgatory
Think code quality doesn't matter anymore now AI agents are here? Think all that early speed is sustainable? You're in for a nasty surprise.