A while back, I asked “what is architecture?” and I got many responses within just one day. Some serious, some more (bitter-sweet) joking. We can identify some cluster of responses, but even so, there are certainly a dozen distinct perspectives. x.com/girba/status/1… 1/

Yuan Gao The upcoming death of software engineering has been greatly exaggerated by people who never built software themselves bsky.app/profile/malder…

#GOTOpodcast: Simon Wardley sits down with Charles Humble to talk Wardley Mapping. 🧭 How to spot inertia before it slows you down ⚙️ What evolves in tech systems 🤖 AI, centralization and the future of strategy Get clear on what to build, when, and why. 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

George Orwell: In my book I invented the Versificator as a cautionary tale Gen AI company: At long last, we have created the Versificator from classic sci-fi novel Nineteen Eighty-Four! Hat tip:

Beautiful metaphor. We can’t quite expect LLms to make better sense of the world, but we certainly can improve significantly our ability to see our systems.

My Wiki Man this week, in which I introduce readers to the mind-shifting paceometer. spectator.co.uk/article/why-dr…

Beautiful

We are now at the stage in which we beg the machine to do what we consider normal.

Here are some of the main findings: --> 60% worry AI will replace human relationships --> 70% say AI should never make decisions without human oversight --> Women are more than twice as concerned about AI as men --> Half think AI development is moving too fast to remain safe -->

Perspective

How it started: "AI vibe coding tools will replace devs!" How it's going: "Do this: - Provide it w a detailed spec - Break down tasks to small ones - Separate dev and prod envs - Do NOT give access to the agent to prod - Never trust the agent; verify every step it takes - ...

6/13 Reasonable limits Exceed 15 minutes per hour or 3 hours per day on a property, and we may assume felony. If you require more than that, you are either running a hospital system or a cult. Often both.

Please read this

Funny

Perspective

Vibe code is legacy code Andrej Karpathy coined vibe coding as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists" We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have

In the last ten years three works really impact my views on software engineering and building software professionally: - Simon Wardley works on strategy - Tudor Girba's manifesto on legacy code and black boxes - the book in the image: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

What’s the deal here?

There was a time when people believed and invested in the human potential… the good thing is that the potential is still there but we are somehow told we should look elsewhere.

We tested how autonomous AI agents perform on real software tasks from our recent developer productivity RCT. We found a gap between algorithmic scoring and real-world usability that may help explain why AI benchmarks feel disconnected from reality.