Director, R7K Research & Conveyance. Author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code.
Miami, FL
Joined March 2008
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Precision drift. LLMs are increasingly good at inferring intent. We become less precise when we ask / specify.
Does precision become a "machine thing"?
I’ve been seeing more errors in articles and papers recently. Garbled text, sentences that appear out of place. It would be easy to blame AI, but I think it is humans editing AI. So, I’m guessing that the way this goes is: people will just stop reading "published" text. Maybe they'll ask AI what it means, maybe not. In any case, it seems like a collapse.
If humans didn’t write it, humans won’t read it.
Fun conversation with Len Epp, co-founder of Leanpub. We discussed the impact of AI on programming, the use of words in technical work and teams, unnamed concepts, writing process and more.
youtu.be/y64abWxhWqo
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Join the conversation about improving developer productivity. Register for the free Bridges Summit.
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Conversation leaders include:
@KentBeck, Dave Thomas, @mfeathers, @jessitron, me, and so many other wonderful speakers.
Had a lot of fun talking to the hosts of Book Overflow. Great resource.
We had the great honor to interview @mfeathers, author of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code!" Join us as we discuss his insights on the book, thoughts on TDD, and how AI and LLMs are shaping the industry! youtu.be/CXtKUxlHMco
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This week we wrap up our discussion of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” by @mfeathers! Some great discussions about the past legacy projects we’ve worked on and how the attitude you bring to work makes a huge difference!
youtu.be/tLC-o8pHclc?si=EqkX…
Modifying the Rough and Re-Reasoning From Zero - Managing Development Workflow in Generative Chat Sessions
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Seminar: Where AI Meets Code
I'll be running a free seminar within the next few weeks. Join to hear and share thoughts about the state of tooling and how to safely and effectively use it.
michaelfeathers.substack.com…
Seminar: Where AI Meets Code
I'll be running a free seminar within the next few weeks. Join to hear and share thoughts about the state of tooling and how to safely and effectively use it.
michaelfeathers.substack.com…
AI-based code generation has risks. We can sidestep this issue and use it to help us understand code. Here I describe a technique I use called lensing - forming conceptualizations of system responsibilities at several scales.
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No Code. No Problem? Some thoughts about the limitations of no-code solutions.
Understand them and you've found their proper place.
michaelfeathers.substack.com…
A few thoughts about AI-based code generation.
michaelfeathers.substack.com…
Notice for anyone in Tokyo. I'll be doing a workshop on June 6th 2024
itpreneurs.co.jp/event/20240…
Fast Ideation and (Code) Generation - A Note about AI
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Arthur Whitney's one page implementation of J is a interesting test case for AI based refactoring / code understanding.
nsl.com/papers/origins.htm
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Is 2024 the year that you really wrangle that old code and start doing something new with it?
@martinfowler has a good post on finding seams (with shout out to @mfeathers) in your legacy code to better support tests, and more.
martinfowler.com/bliki/Legac…
