I’ve been busy traveling this week, visiting some clients in the Bay Area and attending The Pragmatic Summit. So I’ve not has as much time as I’d hoped to share more thoughts from the Thoughtworks Fut

Some more thoughts from last week’s open space gathering on the future of software development in the age of AI. I haven’t attributed any comments since we were operating under the Chatham House Rule,

The number of options we have to configure and enrich a coding agent’s context has exploded over the past few months. Claude Code is leading the charge with innovations in this space, but

I’ve spent a couple of days at a Thoughtworks-organized event in Deer Valley Utah. It was my favorite kind of event, a really great set of attendees in an Open Space format. These kinds of events are

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

Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using a coding agent affects internal code qualit

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 Thou

LLMs help developers explore the "what/how" loop of software abstraction more fluidly, complementing TDD in managing cognitive load and building adaptable systems.

Teams need both adaptation and optimization, not one or the other. Balance "explore" and "exploit" modes based on uncertainty and risk.

A roundup of favorite 2025 albums spanning diverse genres: Balkan brass, Ethio-jazz, jazz-rock fusion, and more global sounds.

Anthropic reports developers use AI for 59% of work with 50% productivity gains, mainly for debugging and understanding code.

Gitanjali Venkatraman published an illustrated guide on Mainframe Modernization, clearly explaining the history, challenges, and solutions with quirky visuals.

Author now posts short "fragments" on their blog instead of Twitter, since Twitter's audience has fragmented across multiple platforms after Musk's takeover.