On 28. and 29.08.2026 (10am – 12pm) I held the AI part of my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 21-Year Journey“ talk and the teaser for my “Solutions for (Modern?) Software Development – Approximations From a 21-Year Journey” at SoCraTes Soltau (in person and in english).
During the talk and in the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Uwe Friedrichsen’s blog posts:
- Uwe’s JAX 2026 slides: „The 7 Pitfalls of AI“
- „We Are Our Own Worst Enemies”
- „Thoughts on AI and Software Development“ (4 parts)
- Andrew Murphy‘s „If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems“
- Gergely Orosz: “Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?”
- The Atlantic: „The End of Reading is Here“
- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister in „Peopleware (re-visited)”: “The High-Tech Illusion“
- „Ten takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash”
- Richard Sheridan “Joy, Inc.“
- John Allspaw: “How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day“
- Neil Postman: Technopoly
- “A vague ask used to cost a bad meeting. Now it compiles. Now it compiles” post
- Spiegel.de: “Menschen werden entlassen – und was ist mit denen, die bleiben?” (german)
- David Foster Wallace: “This Is Water”
- Carl Sagan: Cosmos (start here, then watch this)
- Guide to my Mastodon hashtags
- Last but not least:
- The link to all other sources I did mention in the „Thoughts“-related discussions since 2024