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@alexthurow Thanks for this thread, I just bought this book. I’m thinking about how to automate a development platform where the system makes AI agent developers successful.

https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110326358220845614

@adrianco

You are very welcome 🙂!

In case you like @baldur’s „Out of the Software Crisis“ I have another thread for you:

And that even closes the circle - because it is on the topic of: AI 🤓📚!

@alexthurow @baldur Cool, bought that too.

@alexthurow @baldur In my career I’m always leaning in to what could be, and trying to make it work for some use cases then helping it expand. That applied to Sun/Unix in the 1980s and 90s, then Cloud, DevOps, Chaos Eng, Serverless, Containers, and now AI based developer teams.

@alexthurow @baldur The systems thinking about development in @baldur’s book could be a good topic for @RuthMalan monthly systems meeting. I’m looking at the list of things that go wrong in software projects and thinking about how to build a system that manages AI agents to successful outcomes.

@adrianco @baldur @RuthMalan

From my perspective most of the time our focus on the technology-side of things is the aspect that hampers software development most. I described my reasoning here:

https://onmoderndev.de/en/consulting
—> 600 seconds

Another spot to look for answers is @ufried‘s website (https://www.ufried.com). A great place to get familiar with his perspective is this thread:

https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113225359807635361

Consulting - On (Modern?) Software Development

If you and your organization are in need for, or plainly interested in, further details about the approach I outlined, you can find my service offering at: Live long and prosper 🖖,Alex

On (Modern?) Software Development

@adrianco @baldur @RuthMalan @ufried

Plus a more recent 4-part treatise on „AI in 2025“:

https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/114802547038536263

Plus an addon:

https://www.ufried.com/blog/ai_assisted_coding/

Alexander Thurow (@[email protected])

Very recommended reading: „Thoughts on AI and Software Development - Part 4“ by @[email protected] https://www.ufried.com/blog/ai_and_software_development_4/ #OnModernDev #AlexThuReading

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@adrianco @baldur @RuthMalan @ufried

… I just realized that I see an irony here:

If I would be compiling a list of things that *will* go wrong in software projects, I would make sure to add „agents“ to one of the top spots of that list. 🤓📚

👋, Alex

Adrian Cockcroft Nov 17

@alexthurow @baldur @RuthMalan @ufried I’m reading @baldur ‘s book and thinking about how to build a system thinking oriented dev platform that includes all the things that are usually missing (like experiments and feedback), but we don’t have to convince the developers and managers to do it because we spawn them on demand.

@adrianco @baldur @RuthMalan @ufried @tastapod @kevlin

Alexander Thurow Nov 18

Here is my one AI-related thought of the day - possibly it provides some additional input to your work and reasoning:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexthurow_my-vibe-coding-misadventures-hit-a-new-low-activity-7396472893985153025-kYTy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACu_WQBkgjVO4p_Xln7N9PNdAKiw9qqL80

Another pointer would be Harari‘s „Nexus“ (that one was a bit of a mind-warper):

https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113136202008440831

#onmoderndev | Alex Thurow

Recently I am often coming back to a thought that occurred to me a while ago (unpopular opinion warning): „Up until now we wrestled with software development on the brink of loss of control. Now we are automatting that state.“ I guess inspirational credits go out to Kevlin Henney and his 2015 thought: „Code generation - so that you can do the wrong thing faster...“ https://lnkd.in/ex_ugvqn #OnModernDev