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…
Chatting with Unmesh about building language with LLMs
A few weeks ago, Unmesh Joshi and I started having a conversation about how he likes to grow a language of abstractions when working with an LLM. We thought this…
Bliki: Expansion Joints
Back in the days when I did live talks, one of my abilities was to finish on time, even if my talk time was cut at the last moment (perhaps…
Team OKRs in Action
OKRs have become a popular way to connect strategy with execution in large organizations. But when they are set in a top‑down cascade, they often lose their meaning. Teams receive…
Impact Intelligence, addressing common objections
Sriram Narayan concludes his article in impact intelligence by addressing five common objections to this activity, including slowing down, lack of agility and collaboration, and the unpredictability of innovation. more……
Quick but worthwhile links
Abi Noda observes Just met with a 2000+ eng company. Their developers are saving 2+ hours per week thanks to Copilot. But they’re also losing: 3 hrs per week due…