On 20.08.2026 (6:30pm Berlin time), I will be holding my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 21-Year Journey” at the Softwerkskammer Nuremberg Meetup (in person and in german).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the Meetup event page here:
https://www.meetup.com/softwerkskammer-nuernberg/events/315951339
The event will be taking place at the following location:
codecentric Office Nuremberg
Sophie-Germain Str. 12 · Nürnberg
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/49%C2%B026’35.7%22N…
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)
- Margaret-Anne Storey: „From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI“
- 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“
—> Why do we only think that we are working in the High-Tech business, while we are not really doing so? - „Ten takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash”
- Nicholas Carr’s: „The Big Switch – Rewiring The World From Edison to Google“ (especially the epilogue)
- Richard Sheridan “Joy, Inc.“
—> How does a company look like, that has Kent Beck’s XP in its DNA and where „joy at work“ is a central idea? - John Allspaw: “How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day“
—> Outstanding talk covering a lot of topics, e.g.: „What happens when your senior developer starts to talk about his/her mental model in front of the team?” - https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/ (thanks Chris Welcz!)
- 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