A simple UML use case diagram and system boundary can keep your LLM from going off the rails. By defining exactly what is inside your system and what belongs outside (like external APIs), you give…

Model-driven engineering with LLM support.

It's 2026, why are you talking about UML? Because visual modelling is a secret superpower in the AI age. This video explains the benefits.

This episode looks at the origin of design patterns in software, their development, and the limited exposure many software engineers have to the idea. The episode is supported by members of…

What does a coding-agent harness actually add, and at what cost? It turns out your Claude models may not need Claude Code… We evaluate 21 model–harness pairs spanning seven models and three…

Using a large language model (LLM) coding assistant frees up brain cycles to concentrate on your customer's problems instead of the minutiae of code. Or, it would, if they did the right thing, It's…

This episode discusses the final section of the 1969 software engineering techniques conference report…eventually, after discussing how statistics does or doesn't work. I also reflect on both…

Hand the cheap model a trajectory, not a plan: /prewalk keeps 92–97% of the frontier pass rate at roughly half the cost, measured on SWE-Bench Pro.

A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?

This episode contextualises the 1968 NATO Science Committee conference on Software Engineering, and explains what we learn through the executive summary, preface, and first three sections of the…

Model-driven engineering with LLM support.

Model-driven engineering with LLM support.

This episode continues a review of the 1969 conference on software engineering techniques looking at software adaptability, large software projects, and software engineering education. The episode is…

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Object Oriented Programming died several times already. This time might be the last.

Open source AI coding agent that works in your terminal, IDE, or desktop app, supporting 75+ LLM providers with no code storage.

Is Spec-Driven Development (SDD) just a return to the 90s-style phased Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? In this video, I draw on 20 years of experience—from the early days of Agile to modern…

This episode is the first to discuss the 1969 NATO conference on Software Engineering Techniques. We find out that there isn't a NATO-sponsored international institute of software engineering, though…

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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Axminster is a tool that lets human software engineers and LLM-based assistants collaborate on software models. Visualise your software designs, and capture business rules as constraints on the…

In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet.…

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How do you get your AI coding assistant back on track when it loses sync with your UI? In this extract from the Chiron Codex Live Coding 2 stream (https://studio.youtube.com/video/OcZbm0EaPWU), we…

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