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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code. Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. Not because wed be perfect, but because wed go out of our way to keep them involved and informed. They tend to be passionate, senior developers.

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Preparing for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. That implicit context is a critical part of software development and also has to be made available to AI.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. When you’re done, the tests remain.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. LLMs are their own beast Unit testing involves asserting predictable outputs for defined inputs, but this obviously cannot be done with LLMs. With LLMs, you might not. Sound at all familiar?

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Test-Driven Development and the Cycle of Observation

Code Simplicity

Today there was an interesting discussion between Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , and David Heinemeier Hansson on the nature and use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), where one writes tests first and then writes code. It’s possible to minimize this point and say it’s only relevant to debugging or testing.

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AoAD2 Practice: Collective Code Ownership

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Developers. Pairing will help ideas will organically spread around the team.