Fragments: May 27

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Fragments: May 27 - Martin Fowler
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At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented programming (at that point - October 2025), we show our frustration that things we’ve been saying for thirty years still need to be said, we say how anything like a manifesto reunion needs to be led by a younger generation, and opine on what junior developers should be focusing on in their career.

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Ian Johnson has written a series of posts about restructuring a gnarly codebase