Fragments Nov 19
I’ve been on the road in Europe for the last couple of weeks, and while I was there Thoughtworks released volume 33 of our Technology Radar. Again it’s dominated by…
My Foreword to "Frictionless"
I find most writing on software productivity to be twaddle, but Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda are notable exceptions. I had a chance to take a look at their new…
The Learning Loop and LLMs
Unmesh Joshi finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes illusory if we use them to shortcut the learning loop that’s an essential part of…
Fragments Nov 3
I’m very concerned about the security dangers of LLM-enabled browsers, as it’s just too easy for them to contain the Lethal Trifecta. For up-to-date eyes on these issues, I follow…
Agentic AI and Security
Agentic AI systems are amazing, but introduce equally amazing security risks. Korny Sietsma explains that their core architecture opens up security issues through what Simon Willison named the “Lethal Trifecta”….
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development
I’m about to head away from looking after this site for a few weeks (part vacation, part work stuff). As I contemplate some weeks away from the daily routine, I…
From Black Box to Blueprint
A common enterprise problem: crucial legacy systems become “black boxes”—key to operations but opaque and risky to touch. Thiyagu Palanisamy and Chandirasekar Thiagarajan worked with a client to use AI-assisted…
Research, Review, Rebuild: Intelligent Modernisation with MCP and Strategic Prompting
The Bahmni open-source hospital management system was began over nine years ago with a front end using AngularJS and an OpenMRS REST API. Rahul Ramesh wished to convert this to…
Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI
CLI coding agents are a fundamentally different tool to chatbots or autocomplete tools – they’re agents that can read code, run tests, and update a codebase. Ben O’Mahony explains that…