Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

New 📚 Release! Spec-Driven Development: Construye con IA sin Perder el Control by Bezael Pérez

Usar IA para programar es fácil. Usarla sin perder el control, no tanto. Spec-Driven Development es el método para convertir tu idea en una spec que la IA ejecuta con precisión — sin loops infinitos, sin código roto, sin empezar de cero.

Find it on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/sdd-spec-driven-development

#books #programming #softwaredevelopment #ai

Can you FEEL it? ⚡ The energy is building! DevConf 2026 is bringing together the best minds in South African software development. Innovation. Collaboration. Community. It's almost time! #DevConf2026 #DevExcellence #SoftwareDevelopment

It really feels like AI assisted or agentic software development amplifies the issues you have in the process. Have a team which works well together, is self-organised, is empowered and has already learned how to collaborate it aids as a tool or a new methodology.

Take a team where this is not the case, couple it with duedates and pressure and you unleash chaos.

#ai #softwaredevelopment

I'm looking for problems by watching you CI server build jobs and telling the devs if a build breaks. (Don't asks about the broken e-mail notification)
I don't call it #QualityEngineering or similar. Just plain / upland #Testing .

#RapidSoftwareTesting goes beyond the execution of predefined scripts and also doesn't reinvent the wheel.
Good, deep testing is doable.

#quality #softwaredevelopment #softwaretesting #agile #kanban #scrum

Tools like Claude Design have an assumption baked into them: that "productivity" is fungible, and more "productivity" of artifacts leads to more value.

But if anything, the problem is that there are too MANY artifacts — and decision-making within your company begins to take on a "garbage can" model.

The solution for designers is to step out of clock time work, and think on calendar time.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/claude-design-is-a-clock-time-solution-for-a-calendar-time-problem

#UX #UXDesign #AI #LLM #tech #softwaredevelopment #design

The most underrated skill isn't knowing how to use every new tool - it's knowing which ones to ignore so you can actually get some work done. #SoftwareDevelopment

If you call it agile, please act like it and don't just put story points on every task. And why on earth don't you include your developers in the planning of those stories?
The way it's working now is basically the worst of waterfall and agile combined. Congrats, I hate it.

#agile #waterfall #SoftwareDevelopment

#InfoQ dives deep into #SpringFramework 7 & #SpringBoot 4 with the team behind the code.

🛠️ Key Focus: the shift toward core resilience by integrating features such as retry and concurrency throttling directly into the framework, alongside the performance benefits of modularizing auto-configurations.

🔗 Read now: https://bit.ly/3OIoz6W

#Java #AIcoding #Microservices #SoftwareDevelopment

Interesting view on agile development and how LLMs are changing it.

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260414.html

I specifically liked this:

«One unambiguously positive development that's followed is that software professionals are writing specs again. [...] Agile told us "Working software over comprehensive documentation". Spec-Driven Development is telling us "Comprehensive documentation creates working software"»

#softwareDevelopment #agile

🤦‍♂️ Oh, joy! Another thrilling 12-minute treatise on code complexity that rivals a calculus textbook in zest. Apparently, if you throw enough fancy terms like Cyclomatic and Halstead at your #JavaScript spaghetti, it suddenly becomes gourmet 🤔👌. Who knew #psycholinguistics held the key to #refactoring nightmares? 🍝🔍
https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/ #codecomplexity #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

New video: McLuhan's "the medium is the message" applied to AI-assisted development.
Not prompt tips. Ways the tool is already changing how developers think — articulation, abstraction, verification, documentation, code structure.
🎥 https://mozaicworks.com/blog/the-medium-is-the-message-what-ai-really-does-to-how-you-code?fsp_sid=1300 #softwaredevelopment #programming #AItools #video
https://mozaicworks.com/blog/the-medium-is-the-message-what-ai-really-does-to-how-you-code?fsp_sid=1300