Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature

The other week I came across the concept of Fuben-Eki, which roughly translates as the “benefit of inconvenience”. Initially I thought it sounds like one of those ancient Japanese philosophies that has been tidied up for LinkedIn and eagerly scrolled down to the comments to see the ‘Engagement’ but it is apparently a relatively recent system-design concept. Hiroshi Kawakami described it as looking for benefits that can only be gained through inconvenience: value that sits outside the usual axes of efficiency and functionality.

¡Hola, soy DORA. Why hasn’t AI improved my metrics?

I’m often asked about AI stuff as the rest of my blog might suggest. The world is currently scrambling around for how and where AI best accelerates delivery of software programmes, but I still don’t think there is one solution - similar to what happens when you ask any two people how Jira should be used to be fair.

JPEG Compression, but for Thought: AI as Clear-Text Encryption

There seems to be a current trend happening corporate and professional communications - looking at you LinkedIn - where people write bullet points and have AI tools expand on it.

AI Site Generator - Outsourcing (Too Much) Responsibility to AI

Static Site Generators are good, but what if they were more gooder?

Prompt Driven Development; BDD but shift-left-y-er

Déjà Vu in the IDE

Every few years the industry seems to come back to the same idea with a fresh lick of paint. Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) was all the rage when I entered Platform Engineering, what feels like forever ago. With Cucumber, Gherkin, SpecFlow and the rest, the plan was to write tests in something approaching natural human language: Given … Then … When. It is not far from the familiar As a … I want … So that … format we use in user stories.