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Martin Fowler

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Fragments: May 27

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I…

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Maintainability sensors for coding agents

There are multiple dimensions we usually want to achieve and monitor in…

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Maintainability sensors for coding agents

There are multiple dimensions we usually want to achieve and monitor in…

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Maintainability sensors for coding agents

There are multiple dimensions we usually want to achieve and monitor in…

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Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)

Once a team adopts AI coding assistants, the first gains show up…

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Fragments: April 14

I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there…

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Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

Over the past decade, hardware has seen tremendous advances, from unified memory…

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Harness engineering for coding agent users

The term harness has emerged as a shorthand to mean everything in…

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Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

Should humans stay out of the software development process and vibe code,…

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Context Engineering for Coding Agents

The number of options we have to configure and enrich a coding…

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