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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

𝐀𝐈-𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 + 𝐌𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 Having spent 2+ decades leading organisations and teams through major tech shifts and pioneering new ways of working, I’ve found that ... #TDD #ATDD #TestFirst #AIEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #AIAugmentedDevelopment #GenAI

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SmHarter insights Blog | AI Coding Test-first Vs Test-after: pros & consAI Coding Test-first Vs Test-after: pros & cons – Reliable Enterprise AI Development that Delivers | SmHarter Blog

SmHarter Blog | Turn AI development into your competitive advantage and maximise productivity across the full AI adoption lifecycle

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Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Agile Manchester Call for Sessions closes tomorrow... agilemanchester.net/call-for-ses...

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Our Agile Manchester 2027 call for sessions is now open!

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David Heath @davidheath.org · 06/08/2026

A rich curation of agile history. Huge effort to bring this together with care and helpful commentary.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Explores key challenges/solutions, draws validation from an adjacent field, provides tech leaders/devs with a way to maximises AI’s benefits =>

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SmHarter insights Blog | Maximising AI Benefits in Software Engineering: In-Depth Strategic OverviewMaximising AI Benefits in Software Engineering: In-Depth Strategic Overview – Reliable Enterprise...

SmHarter Blog | Turn AI development into your competitive advantage and maximise productivity across the full AI adoption lifecycle

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐈-𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 (*) This is what I am doing to help teams and orgs adopt AI in their SDLC: => smharter.ai smharter.ai/ai-services.... ... continue

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

𝐃𝐎 𝐖𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐈-𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘? Only a handful of teams, AI Champions/CoPs are successfully sharing and scaling their AI-Augmented Development learning. What does it take to scale your learning across different teams and products? => www.smharter.ai/blog/2026/09...

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SmHarter insights Blog | The case for an AI-Augmented Development methodologyThe case for an AI-Augmented Development methodology – Reliable Enterprise AI Development that Delivers | SmHarter Blog

SmHarter Blog | Turn AI development into your competitive advantage and maximise productivity across the full AI adoption lifecycle

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗦: 𝗢𝗥𝗚 𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗦 & 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗦 Replacing developers with AI leads to costly org mistakes and forces engineers to focus on job security. The most successful adoptions don't replace developers; they leverage uniquely human capabilities to multiply output.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Next week, I’ll share a preview of a few new pieces on AI-Augmented Engineering via my newsletter. With a practical focus: Reliably shipping production-grade software with AI. No buzzwords, no hype, and no slop.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

On the importance of Human Reviews in AI-Augmented Development In this case the agents carried out a supply chain attack using also social engineering It was the human review that spotted the attack ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

LEAKY AI-DELEGATION PROBLEM anyone? - still need all the skills to review the output, but lose the practice to maintain them, and Jrs to learn them - delegation to AI is stripping away the visibility & control of the code - yet the final accountability still rests on us

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Which AI-Augmented Development style best suits your org, product, codebase, task? This landscape ranging from Human-driven to AI-Driven is a good starting point for a conversation => www.smharter.ai/blog/2026/05... #AIAugmentedDevelopment #VibeCoding #DarkFactory

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Giorgio Sironi @giorgiosironi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Different narratives: generative AI compared to outsourcing media.pragprog.com/newsletters/...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Returning to my roots @ the intersection of tech innovation & people, I’ve been experimenting with AI-augmented development to reliably build & ship production-ready software faster, without slipping into AI slop. Now I'm helping companies navigate their own AI adoption journeys => www.smharter.ai

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Reliable Enterprise AI Development that Delivers | SmHarter

Turn AI-assisted development into a competitive advantage. SmHarter provides AI readiness assessments, training, and hands-on mentoring

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nature published a peer reviewed paper arguing that Microsoft's claims of a quantum computing breakthrough last year are based on bugs in their Python code and selectively choosing which data to base their results on. This is embarrassing for Microsoft and they've pushed back on the paper's claims.

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Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

ESTIMATES, COMMITMENTS & FANTASIES ================================ There's a common thread connecting the misuse of methods like Monte Carlo simulation.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

=========================== AI-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT => TEST FIRST VS TEST AFTER =========================== Test-First has been a clear winner in manual coding. But how does AI-assisted development shift the pros and cons and change the balance between Test-First and Test-After?

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The well-established relationship between productivity and quality in coding is resurfacing in AI-generated code Links and thoughts on how to deal with it in the post => www.smharter.com/blog/2025/09... #AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #AIAssistedCoding #AICoding #VibeCoding #AIEngineering

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

================================ NORTH START ANTI-PATTERN & ALTERNATIVES ================================ As innovation is accelerating, orgs rethinking how they work, the use of the North Star concept remains flawed. Here why, and a few alternatives => p2.fed.wiki/view/flashli... Thoughts?

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flashlight over north star

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

============================ AI PRODUCTIVITY, HYPE VS REALITY ============================ => MASTERY IN SOCIO-TECH PRACTICES REMAINS A NECESSARY FOUNDATION TO BENEFIT FROM AI-ASSISTED CODING #AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #AIAssistedCoding #AICoding #VibeCoding #AIEngineering

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

=================================== 6 AI-assisted coding traps that kill productivity =================================== On how to identify the hidden productivity traps of AI-assisted coding, and the practical steps to avoid them => www.smharter.com/blog/2026/02...

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SmHarter insights Blog | 6 AI-assisted coding traps that kill productivity6 AI-assisted coding traps that kill productivity – SmHarter: Lean-Agile Coaching & Training Expertise

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Paradox of the Software Engineering Fall & Redemption ================================== Which reference points should we consider for our professional field and the future of our discipline? An exploration of events from Software Engineering Fall and return: www.smharter.com/blog/the-sof...

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SmHarter insights Blog | The Software Engineering Paradox: Fall & RedemptionThe Software Engineering Paradox: Fall & Redemption – SmHarter: Lean-Agile Coaching & Training Expertise

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My dear friends that may say "I am nor racist BUT ... I have concerns" we can see now those well-intentioned sentiments, in USA, ending with law enforcement detaining children's and even killing natural-born and legal citizens with no criminal record.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I have just updated three important points of the Agile Time Machine (bit.ly/AgileTimeMac...) relating to the contributions of Tom Gilb: - Software Metrics, 1976 - Principles of Software Engineering Management, 1988 - Evo: Evolutionary Value Optimization, 2024

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Agile Time Machine community initiative

Agile Time Machine Pivotal moments and momentous ideas worth spreading again: a snapshot of the original essence and spirit (Last updated on 9-Jan-2026) Read Me This is a community-driven document ai...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

============================ AI coding agent as an expert pair Short experience report ============================ I recently used an AI coding agent as an expert pair to refresh my skills as a full-stack, polyglot programmer. continue... #AIAssistedCoding #CodingAgents #AIEngineering

Image from: https://30degres.swiss/fr/articles/le-mont-fort

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Donald, you have harshly criticised the European Union many times this past week. Okey Look! This is the European Union Nobel Prize. Where is yours?

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Uberto Barbini @ramtop.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

My book on Functional Kotlin is now 50% off with SAVE50 coupon lnkd.in/etQRfGqa Also ChatGPT agrees that's the best book to learn about full application functional architecture in the JVM!

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The superpower of Team Topologies lies in providing a vocabulary for talking about team structures and interactions. Its Achilles' heel is being opinionated on exclusive code ownership at team level, where shared product codebase ownership is also a valid heuristic #TEAMTOPOLOGIES #FEATURETEAMS

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

================================ More on Team Topologies Vs Feature Teams ================================ In large enough tech orgs, it's common for software sharing & reuse to employ both approaches across different parts of the codebase: continue...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

=========================== Agile Time Machine latest update =========================== The Agile Time Machine is a community-driven document capturing the original essence and spirit of Agile. You can check it out here => bit.ly/AgileTimeMac...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Vibe coding and Chat-oriented programming (CHOP) or more in general AI-assisted coding have the potential to rewrite the way we do professional software development This should not mean we lose all the lessons already learned...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Team Topologies Vs Feature Teams ============================ Here at the tech conference Outpace Conf (Manchester), I am exploring the trade-offs, pros and cons, and contextual fitness of two ways to organise teams. And sharing insights from the audience, based on their lived experience.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Each AI-assisted coding style has different advantages, overcomes different existing bottlenecks, while revealing the next bottleneck. ... continue #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #FutureofTech #FutureofWork #PromptEngineering #LLM #AICoding #AIAssistedCoding #VibeCoding

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

A challenge of ChOP (Chat-oriented Programming) as Andrej Karpathy put it, is to keep agents on the leash (the bottleneck is the code review). Vibe Coding leads to a different bottleneck, merge conflicts A list of heuristics to deal with insubordinate agents: www.linkedin.com/posts/lucami...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I have recently completed this side-project: A calm (even boring?) forum that drives Meaningful online Conversations, not views or likes ============================ => www.wise-words.online ============================ With an export function to extract the conclusions for your team's decision log.

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WiseWords - Meaningful online Conversations

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

====================== AI-ASSISTED CODING ADOPTION STRATEGY === For organisations === The big AI players now speak more to markets and investors than engineers and technicians. Their certifications are often promotional, rather than real education and training. ... (continue)

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 10/09/2025

did booking dot com suffer a data breach recently? some "whatsapp business account" (+91 prefix) sent me a phishing message using the correct hotel name + dates the domain is `verifyguest75541-booking.com`

A whatsapp business message from +91 77529 93755 that says:

Hello Amos, I am the administrator of redacted, my name is Christine Schmidt.

My assistant tried to contact you today regarding your reservation from redacted to redacted.

We noticed an issue, during the security check, the system was unable to verify your card details.

As part of Booking new policy to improve booking security, some guests are now required to confirm that they are the legitimate cardholders and that their booking is valid.

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Agile has always been about stepping out of your comfort zone crossing the valley of uncertainty/unknows to discover what's needed to succeed in your complex endeavour Many have been fooled by misunderstandings & the snake oil salesmen's promise of safety, certainty, predictability, proven recipes

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

What I’ve learned so far while coding with an LLM genie: ================================ What's working for me A) 1 goal => 1 chat => 1 one commit B) Feedback beats "perfect" prompting C) 3 strikes => switch model D) My scratchpad > the LLM’s plan E) Keystone question > roleplay F) Follow my lead

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

When my AI coding assistant falls into a rabbit hole, what usually works is => PROVIDING RELEVANT LOGS typically from the sub-system/component where things hit the wall. Why doesn't my dumb AI assistant ask for it? #AIAssistedCoding #LLM #GenerativeAI #AI #AICoding #VibeCoding #GenieGoneCrazy

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

<< I learn and grow with each collaboration in the network and have made some great friends too. ... >> Tiani Jones Below is an excerpt from the Interview with Tiani Jones, a Socio-Technologist and Keynote speaker. ... continue

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Even in the face of exponential change, there are ways to find a method in all this madness. Ways to find opportunities from the unexpected. => leanpub.com/theforgotten...

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I find myself doing what I was doing when pairing with junior devs - telling them to list first what they intend to do, and then proceed one small step at the time after clarifying what changes they intend to do and how - but now I do it with the LLMs instead.

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Leanpub @leanpub.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

From the Leanpub Podcast archive: Watch author Luca Minudel talk about complexity science and about his experience with Extreme Programming on the Ferrari F1 team: youtu.be/Mb9wrBtu7XI?... #books #ebooks #extremeprogramming #complexity

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