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What if I told you that the secret to successfully adopting AI-assisted SDLC is in arranging for the workflow so that you never have another "post mortem".
When visibility is poor, dependencies become bottlenecks.
Say 'hi!' to Continuous Delivery cat.
Multifactor inauthentication:
1. Something you don’t have
2. Something you don’t know
3. Something you don’t care about
4. Something you’re not
Rigid top-down design is not the answer.
Both must be expressed as executable constraints, continuously enforced, and explicitly evolved.
Join the masterclass by sending me a DM.
Software quality in the AI era depends on two coupled architectures: the architecture of the system and the architecture of change. The first governs how software is structured; the second governs how intent becomes production behaviour.
The United States innovates, and the EU regulates.
Someone asked me what do I mean by "professional engineering"? Professional engineering means keeping the focus of the engineered system extremely narrow and only allowing expected behaviour to happen.
It's official: many reports that start with "It's official" are NOT really official!
LLM.
Promote this post no matter what!
"One idea is a bad idea. Two ideas is an argument. Three ideas is a discussion." -Tony Stubblebine
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” -Albert Einstein
Looking forward to seeing many of you there.
Alex Bunardzic
Founder
AI Craftspeople Guild (ACG)
P.S. If this resonates with you, please sign the ACG Manifesto aicraftspeopleguild.github.io/index.html.
There will be no formal presentation. Instead, we'll explore these questions together and share perspectives from our respective experiences.
If you care about the future of software engineering in the age of AI, I would very much value your voice in this conversation.
This roundtable is intended to be a thoughtful, peer-level discussion among engineers and craftspeople who care deeply about the ethical outcomes of our profession.
That raises important questions for our profession:
• How does AI change the way we practice software engineering?
• Do practices like TDD, XP, and architecture testing become more important - or less?
• How should experienced engineers adapt their workflows in an AI-assisted world?
The discussion around AI development today focuses mostly on tools, prompts, and productivity. Much less attention is being paid to something far more important: engineering discipline. As code generation becomes easier and faster, the complexity of the systems we build will increase dramatically.
Announcing the inaugural roundtable session to kick start the functioning of the "AI Craftspeople Guild".
Over the past year, many of us have been exploring a fundamental question: what happens to the craft of software engineering when AI dramatically accelerates code generation?
Brutal.
The MADGA crowd seems desperate to hear comforting words, and here is a chance to make a quick buck selling bedtime stories to the needy.
A potentially lucrative niche appears to be emerging. It is the niche for experts who are willing to pander to the concerned masses that fear they'll lose their cushy positions under the threat of AI.
Judging from the recent trends, year 2026 may be shaping up to be the MADGA year (Make Application Development Great Again). A number of software professionals are lamenting the loss of hands-on application crafting, now that AI seems to be taking over.
Many thanks to the brilliant minds of:
Woody Zuill
Astrid Sawatzky
Tim Ottinger
Frank Ray
Alex Thurow
Jona Heidsick
Laurie Scheepers 🚀
Grygorii Kvasha
Phil Busch
Marcel Meyer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUuP...
Operational perspectives highlighted business and compliance needs, tooling friction, and governance risks, and participants discussed forming a professional guild to articulate acceptable AI standards.