On 24.11.2025 I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at the JUG Bremen/Oldenburg in CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA’s Bremen office facilities (in person and in German).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the Meetup event page can be found here:
https://www.meetup.com/jugbremen/events/311717603
The event location was:
Contrescarpe 75A · Bremen
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=53.07992%2C%208.810928
During the talk and in the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Toot: „IT resiliency in one picture”
- Toot: „If your management model assumes your employees can’t be trusted, you are in big trouble. If it also assumes that the future is predictable, you are in even bigger trouble.“
- Toot: „Smart home enthusiast vs. software developer”
- Third Wave: “Wohin steuert die Tech-Branche?“ (very interesting read in relation to “AI before AI became really big”)
- Talk by „Richard Sheridan“ related to „Joy, Inc.“ + thread about the book
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Thoughts on AI and Software Development“ (very good analysis about the state of things in AI in the year of 2025)
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Solving the Wrong Problem”
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „AI and the Ironies of Automation – Part 1″
- Uwe Friedrichsen: “Simplify” + “The Continuous Amnesia Issue” + more
- Jonathan Blow: „Preventing the Collapse of Civilization”
- Michael Lewis: „The Undoing Project“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „The Intelligence Illusion“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „Out of the Software Crisis“
- Gunter Dueck’s re:publica 2015 talk about „Swarm Stupidity“
- Charles Duhigg: „The Power Of Habit“
- Yuval Noah Harari: „Nexus“ and his TED interview
- The Anatomy of AI: https://anatomyof.ai/
- Frédéric Laloux: „Reinventing Organizations visuell“
- Joana Breidenbach & Bettina Rollow: „New Work Needs Inner Work”
- Spiral Dynamics: „IMU’s integral map”
- Richard Clarke’s “Cyberwar” (dating back to 2010)
- Nicholas Carr: „The Shallows”
- Cathy O’Neill: „Weapons of Math Destruction”