"Every new industry buzzword pulls teams toward trying it before the groundwork is there. The demo stalls, or worse, it reaches production and fails."

#ai #softwareengineering #loopengineering

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/what-is-loop-engineering-how-it-is-different-than-harness-engineering-0e764f373fb1

What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 16 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-16-august-722524ba1f76 #philosophy #culture #management #lean #AI #SoftwareEngineering #economics #science

#SoftwareEngineering at a proprietary trading company: #Optiver
https://open.substack.com/pub/pragmaticengineer/p/optiver?r=av250&utm_medium=ios

What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 9 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-9-august-1ab6b2dde859 #AI #DistributedSystems #science #engineering #SoftwareEngineering #cybersecurity #ProductManagement

"Those humming GPU farms have given us superpowers, but we still don't use them to build better software."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #thisisfine

https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER8UZ/
Tutorial Full Day by Alice Sowerby, Peter N. M. Hansteen and Pierre Pronchery
2026-09-10 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware #eucra #sboms #softwareengineering

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you? https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/9NVQAD/
Talk by Peter N. M. Hansteen
2026-09-12 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware #eucra #sboms #softwareengineering

"Fundamental laws of physics appear all-encompassing, but they're inferior to classical mechanics for explaining why it's better to be in a bus than a car in an accident."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #quantum #vs #classical #yagni

https://blog.exe.dev/claude-is-not-a-compiler

"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #darkfactory

https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #darkfactory

https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #darkfactory

https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

"A good harness should not necessarily aim to fully eliminate human input, but to direct it to where our input is most important."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #harness #humanity

https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html

My (former) colleague @Claudia4 wrote a blog post on how we surprised us and an pentester in a project.

The article itself is in German. But to make it short: Security is a team sport and something to be considered from the beginning and at multiple places.

https://qualityminds.com/de/wie-wir-einen-penetration-tester-ueberrascht-haben

Thank you for that article @Claudia4 and also thank you for all work we did together. 🙏

#softwareengineering #itsecurity #security

"Large software projects have never been limited only by how quickly an individual can produce code. They are limited by how well people can coordinate their understanding of the system they are changing."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #knowledgework #productivity

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/

What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 26 July 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-26-july-2026-9c11a433eabc #politics #AI #SystemsThinking #economics #Lean #SoftwareEngineering

"If your kitchen caught fire 3 or 4 times every time you were cooking I'm guessing you wouldn't handle it by doing triage to guess which fires to put out and which ones were just minor annoyances that could be ignored until they became life threatening."

#softwareengineering #bugs #classic

https://medium.com/@mcarlson_sb/bugs-are-no-longer-a-good-metaphor-3559b3ba5237

Just finished "Collaborative Software Design" by Evelyn van Kelle, Gien Verschatse and @kenny_baas (are the other authors on feedi as well?).

I'm very glad I've read it. Part of me wished I had read it a couple of months ago already. But now the knowledge in it will help me in the future, while explaining why some things worked and failed in my last project.

Clear recommendation for all people involved in a software project.

Thank you so much for that book!

#softwareengineering

"If you're fearful of LLMs producing slop, or building a system that nobody understands, these are the techniques that the best software engineering teams have used for decades to mitigate that risk with humans."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #lean #darkfactory #productivity

https://mattwynne.net/lean-software-production

"Review is now about half of a developer's job, but many teams still treat it as the final step in the process rather than the primary constraint on delivery"

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity

https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-isnt-making-developers-more-productive-its-making-them-busier

"Free generation doesn't weaken YAGNI. It makes the violation cheaper to commit, which is worse."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity #economics

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about

"The mistake is treating both kinds of code the same: Glue code gets over-engineered. Core domain logic stays hidden in long services or handlers. Good architecture starts with noticing the difference."

#softwareengineering #softwarearchitecture #yagni #evolutionarydesign

https://codeartify.substack.com/p/architecture-as-an-escalation-path?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1321233&post_id=200444748&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=f5rqa&triedRedirect=true

"If Mythos taught us anything, it's that LLM agents are really good at finding bugs. Throw them at a codebase enough times, and they will find so many bugs that you'll barely know what to do with them."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #righttoolforthejob #bugs

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/

"If pair programming makes you feel like you're an air traffic controller trying to talk down an air plane piloted by a fidgety 12 year old you're doing it wrong."

#softwareengineering #pairprogramming #classic

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/444098/whats-the-correct-way-to-do-pair-programming

From the Leanpub Blog: The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Russ Miles, Author of The Sovereign Engineer: AI Literacy for Software Professionals

https://leanpub.com/blog/the-leanpub-podcast-feat-russ-miles-author-of-the-sovereign-engineer/

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #AILiteracy #LLMs #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #TDD #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #Leanpub

NEW! The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Russ Miles, Author of The Sovereign Engineer: AI Literacy for Software Professionals

https://youtu.be/yrDKjztF7mM

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #AILiteracy #LLMs #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #TDD #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #Leanpub

What I’ve been reading week ending 12 July 2026 https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-week-ending-12-july-2026-cad3fc6a752e #leadership #management #autonomy #accountability #civility #ai #cybersecurity #SoftwareEngineering #interviews

Something to think about during a quiet moment.
#llm #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment

Five studies that are changing how I think about #AI in #SoftwareEngineering

https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/five-studies-that-are-changing-how

From the Leanpub Blog: Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Agentic Programming: From Prompts to Production: A Path to Al Fluency by Jerod W. Wilkerson

https://buff.ly/YIFQyYl

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #agenticprogramming #AIFluencyLadder #agenticharness #softwareengineering #LLMdevelopment

NEW! Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Agentic Programming: From Prompts to Production: A Path to Al Fluency by Jerod W. Wilkerson

https://youtu.be/8nQmI9jeba4

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #agenticprogramming #AIFluencyLadder #agenticharness #softwareengineering #LLMdevelopment

"Free generation doesn't weaken YAGNI. It makes the violation cheaper to commit, which is worse."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #productivity #economics

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about

I just made a 1-line change that improved my software's overall performance by 4x. That's a rare treat! #softwareengineering

What I’ve been reading week ending 21 June 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-week-ending-21-june-2026-0db3373166a8 #writing #SoftwareEngineering #AI #cybersecurity #Lean #leadership

"If Mythos taught us anything, it's that LLM agents are really good at finding bugs. Throw them at a codebase enough times, and they will find so many bugs that you'll barely know what to do with them."

#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #righttoolforthejob #bugs

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/

I'm looking for work, please boost!

I'm a senior software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a track record of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I've worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. I don't need hand-holding to find the right problem to solve. Several of my most valued projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it.

Some of the technologies I'm familiar with include: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm also a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

My résumé is at https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks for your attention!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring

#fediHire #getFediHired