The article uses the Pottery Class Paradox to show that quality often emerges from repetition, feedback, and iteration rather than from chasing perfection upfront. It connects this idea to evolutionary architecture, where systems are designed to support continuous, guided change protected by fitness functions.
Piotr Filipowicz
A big shift is happening in software development. AI already writes code better and faster than many developers, but it still does not understand the bigger picture. It struggles with architecture, trade-offs, and long-term decisions.
Piotr Filipowicz
For those who don’t know it yet, eXtreme Go Horse (XGH) is a satirical “methodology” created as a parody of bad software development practices. It glorifies speed over thinking, hero coding over architecture, and blind optimism over responsibility. Funny? Absolutely. Dangerous? Also absolutely, especially when combined with AI. Today we are witnessing the birth of a new anti-pattern: AI-powered XGH.
Piotr Filipowicz
I one-shotted prompt-pals.com in about 90 minutes by stepping away from manual execution and letting a "Ralph Wiggum" loop take over. It’s a shift from just chatting with AI to orchestrating a persistent agent that grinds on a project spec until the job is actually done. Here is the breakdown of the autonomous workflow and the exact XML spec I used to make it happen.
Adrian Oleszczak
The recent layoffs at Tailwind Labs highlight a growing disconnect between open-source adoption and sustainability. As AI tools change how developers learn and use software, long-standing assumptions about documentation, discovery, and funding no longer hold. Tailwind’s experience offers an early signal of the challenges many open-source projects may face next.
Adrian Oleszczak
After running many Discovery processes across different organizations, I noticed something that repeats almost every time: Most companies do not have one shared business truth. They have several.
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