A blog about software engineering culture, organisational dysfunction, and AI's impact on the craft.
Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building describes how pattern languages evolve. Large language models are doing something fundamentally different. And it's more dangerous than most people realise.
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You can't fix organisational maturity from the bottom up. But you can create a functional working model within your sphere of control.
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When you look at software through the lens of its UI, you're seeing roughly 10% of what's actually there, the tip of the iceberg sitting above the waterline.
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Picture this... It's Monday morning, and your Product Manager is in a panic. The development team finished their sprint work early, and now there are three days left with no tickets ready to go.
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