Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

I help organizations overcome the challenges of software development. DM is always open. stevebishop.podia.com Oregon, USA Joined May 2017

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

3 days ago

@unclebobmartin Just like human beings.

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

Quite possibly the best video in internet history.

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2 weeks ago

Almost identical to my process. Only difference really is my inclusion of contract tests and specifying outside-in TDD.

Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

3 weeks ago

I start with very informal specifications written by hand. I have an agent convert these into harder specifications that are subdivided into tasks. I review these. Then I feed those tasks into the specifier agent, which converts each task to Gherkin, prunes the Gherkin, and

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

a month ago

@unclebobmartin I don't often say it, but I told ya.

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a month ago

What I find remarkable about this answer is how Jobs nails exactly what differentiates good development vs bad development. youtube.com/shorts/_GUsYU2…

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2 months ago

"Don't guess, test." This is something I have said to software developers and LLM coding agents alike.

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2 months ago

@CFDevelop Not only that, the underlying syntax can now be chosen for us based on the desired outcome, not based our own preferences or limited knowledge set.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

Looks like your discord link is busted @truepain15.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

Although I am not an Anthropic engineer, this is kind of already my new workflow. Not only that, but with Dispatch, I do it almost entirely from my phone. This is only possible though when you have the right constraints on the system and have checks against it ignoring them.

Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

3 weeks ago

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

We're getting shifted into the "cogs in the wheel" status. We were always on the fringe, but with LLM's we're now glorified project managers in the eyes of the business.

Cory House @housecor

2 months ago

After sitting in silence for a moment, I follow up with this: "How many of you would say you've had a good career in programming and are glad you chose it?" Over half the room raises their hands. So the concern isn't about what the career is. It's about what it's becoming.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

To the end customer, code quality never mattered.

Cory House @housecor

2 months ago

The near future: AI generates code. AI tests code. AI commits code. AI pushes code. AI reviews code. AI deploys code. So, developers don’t write or read code anymore. They just do two things: 1. Tell the AI what to do. 2. Review *behavior*. Result? Human code readability

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

The amount of work done between resyncs is often correlative to the size of the batches. As we know, the bigger the batches the bigger the risk. But having frequent resyncs isn't the answer either because then you are moving away from a parallel system to a concurrent system, which only causes the complexity of each resync to increase linearly. So, what's the answer? Well, in order to achieve true parallelism in your work steams they MUST work autonomously. No dependencies. No resynchronization activities. None. Full, and total ability to choose, on their own, with perfectly crafted scopes that ensure isolated activity. This is extremely difficult for businesses to do and believe in because command and control is the default management style. And THAT is why until management gives up control, self-managed teams, they will never move as fast as is possible.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

Anytime a new technology is introduced, someone's job becomes obsolete.

Extinguished Engineer @ExtinguishedEng

2 months ago

I agree with this statement. The hard part is that AI will both create jobs and put people out of work, just like the internet and other new technologies. The people whose jobs are eliminated won't automatically get trained for whatever the new job is.

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2 months ago

This is why vertical slice architecture is the way to go.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

2 months ago

@ExtinguishedEng I think this is also why our particular generation isn't wholly reluctant to accept LLM's as a development tool. We just have the wisdom to understand it needs strong guardrails.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

3 months ago

"Perfectly qualified imbecile" is a term I'm considering using more frequently in business contexts.

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Steve (Big Red) Bishop 👨‍💻 @EzProgramming

3 months ago

In the space of 6 months I went from writing code, to writing guidelines for LLM's to follow in a constrained way with quality checks. If you aren't doing something similar, I'm afraid you're going to find it much harder to find work. We're problem solvers first, not developers.