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I Don't Like LLMs(martinfowler.com)

89 points by TangerineDream 1 month ago | 98 comments

An Accidental Blackboard(martinfowler.com)

71 points by saikatsg 1 month ago | 34 comments

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code(martinfowler.com)

27 points by ingve 1 month ago | 36 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring(martinfowler.com)

269 points by javaeeeee 2 months ago | 115 comments

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs(martinfowler.com)

87 points by SirOibaf 3 months ago | 60 comments

Building reliable agentic AI systems(martinfowler.com)

157 points by sarangk90 4 months ago | 37 comments

Software Architecture Guide (2019)(martinfowler.com)

71 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 29 comments

The VibeSec Reckoning(martinfowler.com)

53 points by HieronymusBosch 5 months ago | 16 comments

Mythical Man Month(martinfowler.com)

368 points by ingve 5 months ago | 197 comments

Martin Fowler bliki post revisiting Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, noting which lessons are outdated and which remain relevant in 2026.

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt(martinfowler.com)

317 points by theorchid 6 months ago | 86 comments

A Martin Fowler "Fragments" blog post with short notes, including a Pragmatic Summit interview with Kent Beck and thoughts on technical, cognitive, and intent debt.

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy(martinfowler.com)

62 points by zdw 6 months ago | 10 comments

Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects (2014)(martinfowler.com)

42 points by pjmlp 7 months ago | 29 comments

The Future of AI Software Development(martinfowler.com)

139 points by nthypes 8 months ago | 91 comments

Semantic Diffusion (2006)(martinfowler.com)

22 points by andsoitis 8 months ago | 13 comments

The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming(martinfowler.com)

96 points by bigwheels 8 months ago | 40 comments

The Learning Loop and LLMs(martinfowler.com)

100 points by johnwheeler 11 months ago | 63 comments

Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl(martinfowler.com)

94 points by janpio 1 year ago | 18 comments

Page Object (2013)(martinfowler.com)

32 points by adityaathalye 1 year ago | 22 comments

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development(martinfowler.com)

378 points by floverfelt 1 year ago | 347 comments

Martin Fowler's blog post sharing scattered thoughts on the state of LLMs and AI and their effect on software development.

Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI(martinfowler.com)

179 points by vinhnx 1 year ago | 32 comments

LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction(martinfowler.com)

49 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 39 comments

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways(martinfowler.com)

49 points by tudorizer 1 year ago | 39 comments

The role of developer skills in agentic coding(martinfowler.com)

304 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 169 comments

Conway's Law (2022)(martinfowler.com)

14 points by yamrzou 1 year ago | 1 comments

Two Hard Things (2009)(martinfowler.com)

66 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 19 comments

Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes(martinfowler.com)

14 points by teivah 1 year ago | 1 comments

Design Token-Based UI Architecture(martinfowler.com)

156 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 118 comments

Cannot Measure Productivity(martinfowler.com)

22 points by aard 2 years ago | 2 comments

Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps(martinfowler.com)

46 points by timbilt 2 years ago | 13 comments

Is 'Monolith First' the Better Approach?(martinfowler.com)

28 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 18 comments

The LMAX Architecture (2011)(martinfowler.com)

95 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 28 comments

Data Fetching for Single-Page Apps(martinfowler.com)

81 points by fagnerbrack 2 years ago | 36 comments

Shu Ha Ri (2014)(martinfowler.com)

81 points by bx376 2 years ago | 25 comments

Event Interception(martinfowler.com)

35 points by ingve 2 years ago | 13 comments

Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern (2004)(martinfowler.com)

36 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 12 comments

Improving my Emacs experience with completion(martinfowler.com)

76 points by ingve 2 years ago | 37 comments

Ship / Show / Ask (2021)(martinfowler.com)

20 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 19 comments

Continuous Integration (2024 Update)(martinfowler.com)

29 points by ABS 2 years ago | 11 comments

Legacy Seam(martinfowler.com)

14 points by ingve 2 years ago | 3 comments

DiffDebugging(martinfowler.com)

54 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 35 comments

How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants(martinfowler.com)

138 points by ingve 2 years ago | 125 comments

Current thoughts on social media(martinfowler.com)

151 points by mcp_ 3 years ago | 147 comments

TeamTopologies(martinfowler.com)

166 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 104 comments

Is Design Dead? (2004)(martinfowler.com)

95 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 89 comments

Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application(martinfowler.com)

150 points by nalgeon 3 years ago | 53 comments

Patterns of Distributed Systems (2022)(martinfowler.com)

195 points by eclectic29 3 years ago | 53 comments

HumbleObject (2020)(martinfowler.com)

27 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 18 comments

An example of LLM prompting for programming(martinfowler.com)

504 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 244 comments

Martin Fowler's article recounting how Xu Hao uses chain-of-thought and general knowledge prompting with ChatGPT to produce self-tested code.

Conway’s Law (2022)(martinfowler.com)

136 points by andsoitis 3 years ago | 46 comments