Luca Minudel

Thanks to Outpace Conf for hosting a potentially controversial topic and for the great discussions with the audience 🎉

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The 1st time I was called out for leaning toward my passion and preferences and ignoring the pros of an alternative technique was by Giulio Vian. We have all been there; moving beyond that is part of the journey toward professional maturity.

More in general ... (TL;DR?!?!?!)
... It takes some distance from personal strengths, preferences, affiliations, biases, and passions, to look objectively at different techniques and understand where each fits well and why. And to learn from different perspectives, even when we may disagree.

Team Topologies Vs Feature Teams
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Here at the tech conference Outpace Conf (Manchester), I am exploring the trade-offs, pros and cons, and contextual fitness of two ways to organise teams. And sharing insights from the audience, based on their lived experience.

What bottlenecks are you observing in your day-to-day AI-assisted coding practice?

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The next bottleneck for Vibe coding (preferred for prototypes) is resolving the merge conflicts among multiple Agents.

The next bottleneck for Chat-oriented programming (preferred for high-quality production-ready code) is controlling the Agent(s), reviewing, validating and accepting their work.

Each AI-assisted coding style has different advantages, overcomes different existing bottlenecks, while revealing the next bottleneck.

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BTW can agents ever learn from Trunk-Based-Development and the Elephant Carpaccio exercise?

A challenge of ChOP (Chat-oriented Programming) as Andrej Karpathy put it, is to keep agents on the leash (the bottleneck is the code review).

Vibe Coding leads to a different bottleneck, merge conflicts

A list of heuristics to deal with insubordinate agents: www.linkedin.com/posts/lucami...

#ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #futureoftech #futureofwork #promptengineering #llm #aicoding #aiassistedcoding #vibecoding | Luca Minudel I have updated here the list of AI-Assisted Coding heuristics that I am collecting, from my own experience and those of other practitioners => https://lnkd.in/es2QZS4S Meanwhile, the post above with ...

www.linkedin.com/posts/lucami...

Give it a try. If you find it useful and wanna host it privately, let me know.

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GitHub - lucaminudel/WiseWords: AI-assisted coding & cloud-native development skills refresh - Side project: A forum for conversations that find a destination. AI-assisted coding & cloud-native development skills refresh - Side project: A forum for conversations that find a destination. - GitHub - lucaminudel/WiseWords: AI-assisted coding & clou...

I wanted to
- explore and experiment with AI-assisted coding with many tools and models, - refresh my hands-on skills in Cloud native and NoSQL.
While pursuing a simple architecture and design, ready to scale as needed.

This is the repo: github.com/lucaminudel/...

I have recently completed this side-project:
A calm (even boring?) forum that drives Meaningful online Conversations, not views or likes
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=> www.wise-words.online
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With an export function to extract the conclusions for your team's decision log.

... => www.smharter.com/blog/2025/08...

And I'd love to hear your experiences and reflections!

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#Strategy #AIAdoption #Transformation

... Meanwhile, the industry hype sometimes overshadows reality - and data already shows the overpromises.

I’ve pulled together my reflections on:
- Common pitfalls
- Better alternatives for adoption
- Guiding principles for leaders in this fast-evolving space

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AI-ASSISTED CODING
ADOPTION STRATEGY
=== For organisations ===

The big AI players now speak more to markets and investors than engineers and technicians. Their certifications are often promotional, rather than real education and training.

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That data breach is still ongoing on the 15th Sept 2025.

The hacker has clear access to the booking dates, hotel, and the customer's phone number.

No comms to customers - it is shameful of Booking.com

A whatsapp business message from +91 77529 93755 that says: Hello Amos, I am the administrator of redacted, my name is Christine Schmidt. My assistant tried to contact you today regarding your reservation from redacted to redacted. We noticed an issue, during the security check, the system was unable to verify your card details. As part of Booking new policy to improve booking security, some guests are now required to confirm that they are the legitimate cardholders and that their booking is valid.

did booking dot com suffer a data breach recently?

some "whatsapp business account" (+91 prefix) sent me a phishing message using the correct hotel name + dates

the domain is `verifyguest75541-booking.com`

Outpace Conf | Manchester Forward-thinking talks grounded in practical experience. A one-day technology conference for senior practitioners and leaders in the North West.

Early bird tickets until Friday, 26th

It will be about
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TEAM TOPOLOGIES VS. FEATURE TEAMS
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Polar opposites or points of a continuum?

The Conf => outpaceconf.com

Outpace Conf | Manchester Forward-thinking talks grounded in practical experience. A one-day technology conference for senior practitioners and leaders in the North West.

I'll be speaking at Outpace Conf in Manchester on the 16th of October. 1-day tech conf for Sr practitioners & leaders.

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What smart depts & orgs do instead?
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- give teams the mandate/authority o continuously try new/emerging tools/models
-ask everyone to experiment to evolve/revolutionise the org's ways of working
- organise systematic knowledge exchange of learning/discoveries

What same old mistakes?
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-Premature convergence on tooling/models in a quickly changing/evolving field
-Obsession with best practices/standards from above, where the best in the game are still experimenting/learning
-And the same old scam of meaningless Certifications

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The illusion that learning can be conscripted & experience can be bought instead of lived, has left many at the starting block

So during this new AI revolution many orgs repat many of the same mistakes

If you are ready to read/tell the hard truth and do the hard work => leanpub.com/theforgotten...

Agile has always been about stepping out of your comfort zone crossing the valley of uncertainty/unknows to discover what's needed to succeed in your complex endeavour

Many have been fooled by misunderstandings & the snake oil salesmen's promise of safety, certainty, predictability, proven recipes

========================================... ============================================ What I’ve learned so far while coding with an LLM genie: ============================================ A - 1 goal => 1 chat => 1 one commit --------------...

What works for you?

Full story => www.linkedin.com/posts/lucami...

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What I’ve learned so far while coding with an LLM genie:
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What's working for me

A) 1 goal => 1 chat => 1 one commit
B) Feedback beats "perfect" prompting
C) 3 strikes => switch model
D) My scratchpad > the LLM’s plan
E) Keystone question > roleplay
F) Follow my lead

When my AI coding assistant falls into a rabbit hole, what usually works is

=> PROVIDING RELEVANT LOGS

typically from the sub-system/component where things hit the wall.

Why doesn't my dumb AI assistant ask for it?

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... It’s also expanded my network to other researchers, practitioners and such which has enriched me personally. I learn and grow with each collaboration in the network and have made some great friends too.

A collection of resources => www.smharter.com/blog/2024/10...

INTERVIEW EXCERPT
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Q: How has Complexity-thinking made a difference in your work?

A: It’s given me permission to slow down and think and be intentional. It’s also informed the techniques and practices I’ve added to my own toolbelt. ...

<< I learn and grow with each collaboration in the network and have made some great friends too. ... >> Tiani Jones

Below is an excerpt from the Interview with Tiani Jones, a Socio-Technologist and Keynote speaker.

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