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Michael Feathersthoughts on the design of places, situations and things
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Prompting and the Probability Sandwich
The issue with prompting is English (or any other human language) is nowhere near as rigid or strict a language as a programming language. Almost always an idea can be expressed much more succinctly in code than language.
Combine tha...
Addressing System Health with Quality Views
Much has been written about technical debt, but it is hard to find people who have the following take:
Technical Debt is the result of a communication problem.
I think it is true.
I’m going to make a slight digression to explain why....
AI Assisted Programming - Release 2
Writing a book incrementally and publicly puts you in a strange state of mind. If I was writing an article, I’d do a clean up then release the final version for all time. Writing a book, I feel compelled to clean up over and over again. I’m...
AI Assisted Programming - Book Preview
When I started writing on substack I expected that I would write about many topics in software design. It would’ve been easy to cycle though newer thoughts on legacy code and technical debt but frankly, that hasn’t been what I am most inter...
Automation for Development: A Sweet Spot for Code Generation
I’ll always remember a training session I ran years ago. The exercise was a simple programming problem, but the focus was on incremental design. I gave the class a feature to implement followed by a new one every 15 minutes. Attendees worke...
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