Archive - mechanisms

Prompting and the Probability Sandwich

The issue with prompting is English (or any other human language) is nowhere near as rigid or strict a language as a programming language.

Jun 3 •

Michael Feathers

September 2024

Addressing System Health with Quality Views

Much has been written about technical debt, but it is hard to find people who have the following take:

Sep 16, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

August 2024

AI Assisted Programming - Release 2

Writing a book incrementally and publicly puts you in a strange state of mind.

Aug 20, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

July 2024

AI Assisted Programming - Book Preview

When I started writing on substack I expected that I would write about many topics in software design.

Jul 23, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

Automation for Development: A Sweet Spot for Code Generation

I’ll always remember a training session I ran years ago.

Jul 2, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

May 2024

Modifying the Rough and Re-Reasoning From Zero

Managing Workflow in Generative Chat Sessions

May 30, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

Non-Determinism, My Friend

Code either works, or it doesn’t.

May 21, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

Seminar: Where AI Meets Code

One side effect of a long career is that you develop significant defenses against hype.

May 7, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

April 2024

The Unstable Ground of Precision in AI

One of the things that all programmers learn is the value of precision — computers reward precise thinking.

Apr 9, 2024

Lensing to Understand

Using AI as a Design Exploration Tool

Apr 2, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

March 2024

No Code. No Problem?

There are some ideas that are reinvented constantly.

Mar 28, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

Recency Bias or Cognitive Load?

Surfacing Capability in Large Language Models

Mar 26, 2024 •

Michael Feathers

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