Martin Fowler

Author on Software Development. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

Matteo Vaccari claims that with agentic engineering we need to re-orient our testing strategy with broader-scope tests represented as data rather than code.

https://t.co/wSwCyMS5Gr

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Fragments: New Thoughtworks tech radar, consequences of slowing down data center builds, are tokens subsidized, weight-space programming, assessing quality of agent context

https://t.co/eySgAToV8U

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Long-horizon agents can automate tasks that take days or weeks, but much can go wrong. Kiran Prakash explains how durable execution allows agents to recover.

https://t.co/LUAR5OCl4M

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For teams to build data products, they need a platform that removes the toil. @tomdw lays out a roadmap for building a self-service platform for a data mesh.

https://t.co/yLlCCMQ66L

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@yashar_rashedi https://t.co/nV54aQdqHg

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Bliki: One of the curses of the growth of AI is the amount of LLM-Voice I read on the web

https://t.co/4Fj9XjytBt

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Rachel's Ramblings:
Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

https://t.co/a5MmD4N7f4

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Fragments: widening perception gap of LLMs, notes from Foocamp, today is 1997, a shift to supervisory control, Eric Evans keynote, Thoughtworks's token sourcing strategy

https://t.co/4MJIpMzWrz

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@GergelyOrosz While I don't seek conversations on social media, I've seen a notable drop in engagements on bluesky (see https://t.co/o844MBaiKc). I find X is fine if I use lists to ensure I'm only reading people I explicitly follow.

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Fragments:LLM generated prose generates rejection, cancellation of Grade Hopper celebration, using AI to assist debugging unfamiliar code

https://t.co/f2tBHwcjw1

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When @thinkuldeep took on modernizing a huge fleet of IoT sensors, he found that while his engineering principles remained largely the same, he formed a new set of Sensible Defaults for the new environment.

https://t.co/J47LHC76O7

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Slide design is based on choices of colors, fonts, and layouts. Sumeet demonstrates how to think about these, and why the best layout is usually a blank one.

https://t.co/EHG6txTa7x

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A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this style.

https://t.co/mRIDEAbon6

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Naresh Jain compares coding agents with and without a harness. He found it made a frontier model more expensive in tokens for little gain, but make a weaker (and cheaper) model more effective.

https://t.co/lqEFM2mXqy

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Fragments: walking the same path as the Krell, Ola Bini banished, interviewed at DDD Europe with Eric Evans, future of reading code, latest Google model knows less, but pretends less

https://t.co/J601EjDBto

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@olabini While I’m sad that you were forced to leave a country I know you enjoy, I’m so relieved to know you made it to Sweden.

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@robbyrussell @_maintainable I hardly ever do podcasts, I'm afraid.

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When slides earn their place they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them - Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the resulting principles.

https://t.co/9054O0KWEY

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Sensible Defaults: do these practices, or do better, and be prepared to explain why you've chosen some other way.

https://t.co/Y0igP019LH