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One of the absolute best rock albums of all time is Iron Butterfly "Metamorphosis".

Fight me on this!

That's how AI naysayers often come across to me. Like, okay, we get it, you don't like it. Fine. Move on with your lives. There's a lot of things I don't like either but I'm not running around harassing people who do like those things

Am I then going to stalk them and poo-poo on their love of sauna? Am I going to keep explaining to them how sauna is bad, and how it's actually not all that it's cranked up to be, plus it unnecessarily burns so much energy, when that energy could be used to feed a small village in Africa?

But some people I know love going to sauna, and are always enthusiastically sharing their sauna experiences.

There is one thing that is puzzling to me. For example, let's say I don't like to go to sauna. I tried once and thought it was a very unpleasant experience. So, I'm never going to try that again.

Pros know how to deal with AI-generated code so that they never have to waste time looking at it.

"Good models exhibit a number of attributes independent of their implementation." -David Laribee

I am planning to change my first name to Relevant.

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.

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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?