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On the blog: Think for Yourself "We should be careful both to avoid 'optimising' and accelerating the creation of legacy code and to mistake such pessimisation as productivity — especially if we're doing so at the expense of joy, time and skill." kevlinhenney.medium.com/thin…

On the blog: Think for Yourself "By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills." kevlinhenney.medium.com/thin…

New on the blog: Think for Yourself "You're about to commit a chunk of LLM-generated code into your product's codebase. Before you do, however, pause to consider and act on these questions." kevlinhenney.medium.com/thin…

20 years of software, still evolving. Daniel Terhorst-North and @KevlinHenney look back on Agile’s early days and ahead to the future — from Erlang and Rust to hardware-aware languages and wearable computing. 🎧 Listen: gotopia.tech/podcast

On the (mis)naming habit of pasting ever more prefixes and suffixes to create identifiers: This is like homeopathy. What you've done is you've diluted the meaning until it's all gone.

#displaysgonewrong Tera Mall in Taif @KevlinHenney

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I'm in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in December for the YOW! Conference series. If you're going, I'll see you there. If you're not, but would like a talk or workshop at your company, get in touch.

Are we becoming maintainers of code we don't understand? Kevlin Henney raises a critical concern about AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, we risk turning devs into maintainers of unpredictable, low-quality "black box" code. piped.video/watch?v=Qgw9fjw4… #vibecoding

another nice @KevlinHenney at london heathrow ✈️

I am officially a purveyor of some 'mad shit' 😎

On the blog: Immutable Value "Republishing this old pattern with additional context and commentary is, I hope, useful as history, practical for now and another nudge, however small, for future." kevlinhenney.medium.com/immu…

Thanks for the RTs the last couple of weeks 🙏

Ich nehme heute den Zug nach Brighton um 12.96 Uhr… 🚂