Tom Howlett

Present a good team with problems & they'll thrive on finding solutions. Ask them to implement your solution & they'll only find problems.

Developers have always built much of their judgment by doing the implementation themselves.
I talked to @johncrickett , founder of Coding Challenges, on The Next Commit about what happens to that learning as agents take on more of the work.
Listen: thenextcommit.substack.com/p/episode-ten-…

A software factory should be continually improving based on feedback from its output.

In my conversation with @slashBene , we explored how review, checks and guidance can help those lessons survive beyond a single task.

Here’s my write-up: substack.com/home/post/p-22…

@slashBene helps clients build software factories. In this week’s episode of The Next Commit, we dig deep into what a software factory looks like in practice, what he’s learning from building them, and how they are changing the work of engineering teams.
thenextcommit.substack.com/p/episode-nine…

Here’s my deep dive on my conversation with Simon Vane, Staff Engineer at M-KOPA, I look at how review, tests and design conversations fit together when agents deliver faster than people can inspect.

Read the full deep dive on Substack: thenextcommit.substack.com/p/deep-dive-gi…