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As a general positive side-effect, which no code approaches didn't had: Writing specs for the AI (aka reasoning about the specs and writing docu) has now somehow become "sexy" for everyone.

They can't make it work - They haven't burned to much time. Now, the are hopefully more sensible about the trade-offs of invested time / possible customization etc, as they have felt some pain themselves.

Even if the (AI-) code will need expensive maintenance in the future, it will be a net profit for sure; in the worst case it can be re-developed (by an expensive developer) from scratch again with a validated user workflow already in place for reference.

They can make it work - great! They saved hand-offs, communication overhead, got immediate feedback...

Now, none-developers cannot only "expect both", but quickly try it themselves with different outputs:

But for some reason, the business experts almost always require all the customization options that are only available with a 3GL. This is not a judgement. It is just an observation from more than 30 years in that business and I see little evidence that this is going to change. Thus, my cautious prediction is that AI solutions will suffer the same fate as 4GL, MDA, No code/Low code and alike because business experts (as well as the responsible decision makers) expect to get both: Concise requirements descriptions in a few sentences while having all degrees of freedom of a 3GL at hand – which cannot work by definition.

Great, great series about Software Development in general by @ufried.bsky.social. I wish more people would talk and think about this; especially with AI in mind. www.ufried.com/blog/softwar...

The only point where my view differs 👇

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

AI-assisted Test Driven Development Experiment Quick Takes Intrigued by Kent Beck's blog Augmented Coding: Beyond the Vibes, I wanted to experiment with...

My 5 min to read quick takes on an AI-assisted TDD experiment by me - feedback is very welcome 🤗

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> The AI coding discourse is a mess because we're all arguing from different vantage points

That is an obvious point, i didn't think at all about 😅 Always a pleasure and educational to read your thoughts 👍

Mediocre engineers think it's brilliant. Experienced engineers see the problems. Rare experts with proper practices actually benefit

The AI coding discourse is a mess because we're all arguing from different vantage points

For everyone else it means it's so hard to tell who's credible

(not to mention all the environmental, social, legal problems... - interesting times in many ways 🙃)

Nonetheless, I truly believe AI is a great additional tool for many things, especially for software development. But applied mindlessly, I fear about many unstable production systems, security issues, investment in money and time which could have been better invested in other things than AI

To admit, you created a system with among others expensive developers but cannot deliver the expected value; doing honest self-analysis / culture of praising mistakes and learning from them... I think, that is an important part of the real issue, but is not so easy and nice for certain egos.

I had a good read, thx!

I think, many managers are frustrated that their software projects are neither on schedule nor within budget, while developers are a major cost driver. Therefore, they strongly want to believe in the AI hype, which would be a nice, easy way out.

i released a new blog post discussing that using genai agents for coding – while impressive in their capabilities – primarily seem to be a technological distraction from underlying, deeper problems (again): www.ufried.com/blog/ai_assi.... enjoy if you like ... ;)

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Unfortunately, I cannot make time for that. Maybe next year. Would appreciated if there would be a recorded version of your always great talks 👍

YouTube video by Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat Will Frameworks Survive? Web Development in an AI-Driven World w/ Typecraft and Robert Jackson

Smart people starting with whiskey and move on to AI Development and similar or other random stuff - Love the format: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3E...

GitHub - MaibornWolff/codecharta: CodeCharta is a visualization tool that transforms complex software architecture and code metrics into interactive, customizable visual maps, empowering everyone to c... CodeCharta is a visualization tool that transforms complex software architecture and code metrics into interactive, customizable visual maps, empowering everyone to communicate and analyze your cod...

Your screenshot reminds me of github.com/MaibornWolff... - You may find it interesting to take a look.

"days to build and cost thousands" - I am curious about the rough numbers of your calculation. A quick explanation would be much appreciated

The idea of AI as a new abstraction for software keeps coming back – prompts as the source of truth, code as an artefact.

Why it won't work any time soon, even if things like non-determinsim and hallucination become solved problems.

If you think like me, that testing deserves more love in current Angular roadmap, feel free to upvote my comment in github.com/angular/angu...

Actually, I am currently writing a blob post about top 3 capabilities for good software development and wanted to put AI-skills there. But brainstorming for the AI section became longer and longer, so I decided to write this article first.

AI is amazing — but let's keep our critical thinking on There is a lot of financial investment and hype about AI. I have heard many different assessments of...

I did some research and have written down my thoughts about AI for developers: dev.to/shaman-appre... - Every feedback is much appreciated 🙏

I would appreciate a source on that 🙏

Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published ## Summary Malicious versions of the [`nx` package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nx), as well as some supporting plugin packages, were published to npm, containing code that scans the file syst...

"Even such an experienced project" like Nx fell victim to trust in AI generated code; IMO at least their incident summary is well done (github.com/nrwl/nx/secu...). A painful but great example why we have to be careful. Especially with some dependency hell / deps of deps of deps... out there.

The summer of AI prompt injections draws to a close. Almost every day in august had a security-blunder when it came to AI agents. Here is the best headline: "Urgent warning for 1.8 billion Gmail users: ‘Hidden danger’ steals passwords in ways even AI can’t detect" What happened during the summer?

Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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