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Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 2

May 16, 2025
(Humanized) steel crow sculptures

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 1

April 25, 2025
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(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 2

April 4, 2025
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(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 1

March 14, 2025
Rock covered by clams

The long way towards resilience - Part 10

February 21, 2025
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Projects considered harmful - Part 1

The problem with broken feedback loops

June 28, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

10 minute read

Boats lying on harbor ground at low tide

What is a project?

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Responsible IT - Part 2

Responding from first principles

June 7, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

16 minute read

Golden Gate Bridge

In the previous post, we discussed the biggest challenges, IT organizations face these days. We have seen four big challenges, each with its own peculiarities:

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Responsible IT - Part 1

Drivers for rethinking IT

May 17, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

12 minute read

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Lately, I attended an IT decision maker conference. A few hundred CIOs and other IT decision makers under a single roof. When looking at the conference schedule, you found the usual suspects:

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The need-vs-want dilemma

An explanation model for bad decision making

April 26, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

12 minute read

Female donkey with a colt on a meadow

In the The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, author Bill Watterson commented on some selected comic strips. Especially one comment made a lasting impression on me:

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Software - It's not what you think it is - Part 7

Making sense of it all for humans

April 5, 2024 Uwe Friedrichsen

11 minute read

Ducks at the seashore

In the previous post, we summed up the misconceptions we discussed in this series and what they mean for the current discussion if AI solutions will replace software developers.

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Recent Posts

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 2

May 16, 2025
(Humanized) steel crow sculptures

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 1

April 25, 2025
Steel spider sculpture in a park

(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 2

April 4, 2025
A jellyfish lying on the beach

(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 1

March 14, 2025
Rock covered by clams

The long way towards resilience - Part 10

February 21, 2025
Resting cows on a mountain meadow
View more posts

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