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Excessive Bold
28 Jan 2026, by admin
I’m increasingly seeing a lot of technical and business writing make heavy use of bold font weights, in an attempt to emphasize what the writers think is important. LLMs seem to have picked up and spread this practice widely. But most of this is self-defeating, the more a writer uses typographical emphasis, the less power […]
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Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent
27 Jan 2026, by admin
There’s no shortage of reports on how AI coding assistants, agents, and fleets of agents have written vast amounts of code in a short time, code that reportedly implements the features desired. It’s rare that people talk about non-functional requirements like performance or security in that context, maybe because that’s not a concern in many […]
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Fragments: January 22
22 Jan 2026, by admin
My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™, a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is currently intended to support Thoughtworks consultants in their client work. I’m looking forward to sharing what we learn from using and further developing the platform in future months. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ […]
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LLMs and the what/how loop
21 Jan 2026, by admin
All this matters even when we use LLMs and prompt them. I recently experimented with writing a miniature object store inspired by the MinIO codebase. When I asked the LLM to derive the implementation for MinIO, it produced something that was too procedural and harder to understand. When I wrote it myself, step by step, […]
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HDI Service & Support World
14 Jan 2026, by admin
May 3, 2026 TO May 7, 2026 | Las Vegas, NV The future of IT service and support is here! For the first time, HDI is bringing together SupportWorld Live and Service Management World into one groundbreaking event: HDI Service & Support World 2026, happening May 3-7, 2026, at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. This all-new […]
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Stop Picking Sides
13 Jan 2026, by admin
I like Agile. I like discipline. I like systems that ship and systems that learn. What I don’t like: tribes. In the last couple decades, many teams camped at the ends of a spectrum: Traditional shops treated optimization as virtue and adaptation as risk. Agile shops treated adaptation as virtue and optimization as betrayal. Both […]
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Hands-On With Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold: An Impressive New Take On Foldables
11 Jan 2026, by admin
At CES 2026 in Las Vegas this past week, I finally had the opportunity to go hands on with the Galaxy Z TriFold, Samsung’s first phone that folds twice and transforms from a regular 6.5-inch Android handset into a 10-inch Android tablet. On the surface, the Z TriFold is essentially […]
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My favorite musical discoveries of 2025
08 Jan 2026, by admin
I listen to a lot of music, it’s a constant accompaniment to my work and our evening relaxing. I don’t use streaming services, every couple of weeks I buy a bunch of digital albums and listen to them every day until we’re ready for a new batch. Here’s my favorite six from last year’s listening. […]
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Fragments: January 8
08 Jan 2026, by admin
Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in using it for implementing new features Developers using it for 59% of their work and getting 50% productivity increase 14% of developers are “power users” reporting much greater gains […]
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Intel Panther Lake Performance Unveiled: Core Ultra Series 3 Roars To Life At CES
05 Jan 2026, by admin
As promised, Intel has launched the Core Ultra Series 3 processors at CES 2026. These are the long-awaited “Panther Lake” chips, and if Intel’s claims hold up under our own testing, they look incredibly impressive. Intel made some very big promises at the show: 24% improved multi-threaded performance versus its own Arrow Lake processors (despite […]
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