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Martin Fowler

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

As part of getting to grips with the new world of agentic…

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The Orchestrator’s Tax

I was deep into a Claude Code session on a .NET codebase…

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The Archaeologist’s Copilot

The “Tourist” Trap We all have “that” repository in our organization. The…

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DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

Modern LLMs possess an incredible capability. They can generate large amounts of…

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Experiences with local models for coding

This is the second memo where I describe my recent experiences on…

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Viability of local models for coding

Until recently I hadn't tried running models locally for quite a while,…

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Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

Preclinical drug discovery is inherently complex and data-intensive. Researchers face the significant…

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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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