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It seems inevitable that automating change verification is going to be necessary, and like other previous trends like automated testing, it’s going to take us all a few years to ge…

LOL thanks for the feedback :)

Across our ~600 engineers adoption of AI coding tools is about 85 percent, and there is an undeniable uptrend in activity as a result. Parking for a moment if there is any value to…

I very much agree with and relate to the stance this article takes, that a domain model expressed in plain text that is both human readable and agent accessible is a _very_ good id…

I'm quite sure it won't be long until tools of this kind are a normal part of every developer's environment who is coding with AI agents, because we are all burning so many tokens …

Concrete and practical advice for dealing with a widely shared issue in large software environments with ISO and other certifications to cater to. Thanks for sharing an article abo…

This is a nice frame for thinking about the divergence in attitudes towards coding with AI assistance in different environments; thanks for sharing. As someone who’s spent decades …

This article takes me back to the Martin Fowler book many years ago that for some reason was far less popular than most of his were at the time on DSLs. Reading the DDD book around…

I think this class of tool is solving a problem that needs solving, and an “amnesia tax” is a great way to frame it. I had PMB on my list to evaluate for this purpose and I’ll add …

Thanks for sharing an honest and balanced take after going down a path that many people would be wondering about. In the last six months I’ve built a product from scratch that I’m …

I've always loved and used flashcards, and relate to this article. I have built my own learning tool based on concept maps, which was inspired by Joseph D. Novak's book "Learning H…

It has always mattered for a team to be on the same page about what words mean in your domain. In 2026 it matters even more, because your newest team members are AI coding agents —…

This is an easy to understand and apply approach, thanks for sharing. To go deeper, I might apply the thinking processes from the Theory of Constraints. As Goldratt used to say, “t…

I think everyone is right on this question :) I have certainly worked in places where there were enormous code bases written in dead languages going back to the 1970s and I was par…

I don't _think_ so, but my understanding of BMAD is second hand. I gather it provides multiple types of agents who play different roles but that those roles are predefined. The fra…

this issue resonates for me very much, as a one person startup experimenter in 2026 like a whole bunch of other people. I have a day job with lots of human interaction, but I've be…

I'm a huge fan of looking back to sources outside our own field for ideas on how to cope with the changes within it. An influential one on me comes from education, too, "Learning H…

This makes sense to me, and reminds me of the more familiar variation in rates of chage in building business systems. I think I first came across this in the writing of Ronald G. R…

Yes it's a product of mine, but it's actually a recent rebuild in desktop app form of an app I built as a web app well over a decade ago. And yes, I used it to get hmans on the sam…

This article describes one of the classic polarities in our industry, the tension between the short term and long term. There are many others, such as the tension between autonomy …

this looks very interesting to me and I plan to try it. I was looking at the web site (pmbai.dev) earlier today and it looked very thorough but when I went to show someone this aft…

Depending on your definition of context, my attempt to solve just the foundational context of what words mean in a given domain, and sharing it cleanly, quickly and reliably with b…

Ha — you actually did it. Genuinely made my day; you've now read it more recently than I have. And I think you've landed where I did: the concept-mapping part is the keeper and the…

I'm intrigued by this idea, and plan to test it to build a new product that is a sibling of an existing one, but with a different targeted purpose. I believe it's verifiable enough…