Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 24/09/2026Learn to build your own factory, not rely on generic harnesses like Claude Code and Codex. 29 Sep. 5% off + a free consult: maven.com/lean-softwar... 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 15/09/2026I've decided I quite like the factory metaphor for hands-off/augmented coding using LLMs. 100
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 11/09/2026Are you trying different models? What do you find are their strengths and weaknesses? 200
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 08/09/2026We're live in 30 minutes! leansoftware.ai/go/30-mins-t...leansoftware.aiHow to learn anything from the agentYou are asked to comprehend more than ever, and faster. Most of it arrives as an overwhelming wall of text, code or a video you don't have time to watch. The agent is the best learning tool any of us… 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 07/09/2026Validation is more than a test suite. It's a gravitational force pulling the models towards the solution you want. 8 days until Build a Software Factory. Starts 15 Sep: maven.com/lean-softwar... 010
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 06/09/2026You can't trust models to write good code. You have to build your validation harness so they don't have a choice. 9 days to go. A few places remain. Grab yours: maven.com/lean-softwar... 010
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 05/09/2026Coding agents can write a lot of code. Imagine being confident enough to never have to read it. 10 days until Build a Software Factory. Starts 15 Sep: maven.com/lean-softwar... 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 05/09/2026Hands-off agentic coding for experienced engineers. 12 days until Build a Software Factory begins. A few places remain. Grab yours: maven.com/lean-softwar... 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 04/09/2026A cohort for experienced engineers working with coding agents. 11 days until Build a Software Factory. We still have a couple of places available: maven.com/lean-softwar... 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 03/09/2026AI summaries are lame. A summary of a book is not the same thing as learning it. Let's be honest, you never read the summary of a meeting you missed unless you absolutely have to. 110
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 03/09/2026E is for Escape Velocity When I had the chance to hang out with Justin McCarthy earlier this year, one big idea I got from him was the idea of escape velocity.maven.comWhat is a Software Factory?There's lots of talk these days about software factories, dark factories and autonomous agentic loops. But what does it all mean? In this session we'll break these terms down and make them concrete.… 120
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 02/09/2026S is for Seed In the software factory metaphor, the Seed is the raw materials. You show up to the factory with a bunch of metal, wait a while, and a car comes out the other end.maven.comWhat is a Software Factory?There's lots of talk these days about software factories, dark factories and autonomous agentic loops. But what does it all mean? In this session we'll break these terms down and make them concrete.… 100
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 31/08/2026Back by popular demand, we're launching a new cohort of our sell-out course. maven.com/lean-softwar... Starting Tuesday, September 15th, running for four weeks through Thursday October 8th.maven.comBuild a Software Factory: Hands-off agentic coding for experienced engineers by Matt Wynne, Aldric Giacomoni, David Laing, and Jeremy Lightsmith on MavenMove from prompting AI to architecting trustworthy agentic systems 101
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 20/07/20261 day till Build a Software Factory. Places left: maven.com/lean-softwar... Preview: maven.com/p/4cfeff/loa... 000
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Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 15/07/2026Delighted to be on the TestGuild Automation Podcast with @testguild.bsky.social. Joe and I had a fascinating conversation about AI agents, testing, and what it takes to trust this new way of building software with real work on hard problems. Listen: testguild.com/a596?utm_sou... 011
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 15/07/20266 days till Build a Software Factory. Places left: maven.com/lean-softwar... Preview: maven.com/p/4cfeff/loa... 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 14/07/20267 days to go until Build a Software Factory starts. A handful of places left. Grab yours: maven.com/lean-softwar... Want a preview? Watch the free Lightning Lesson: maven.com/p/4cfeff/loa... 011
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 09/07/2026The manufacturing industry learned decades ago that you can’t inspect quality in. Software teams using AI urgently need to learn the same lesson. 100
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 26/06/2026I love the concept of “semantic zoom” that @lexler.bsky.social introduces in her augmented coding patterns lexler.github.io/augmented-co...lexler.github.ioAugmented Coding PatternsA collection of emerging patterns, anti-patterns, and obstacles for effective AI-augmented software development 111
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 18/06/2026W. Edwards Deming spent much of his career arguing against the old American, inspection-based approach to quality in manufacturing. My favourite analogy of his was making toast: “You burn, I’ll scrape.” One part of the system creates defects; another part tries to clean them up afterwards. 112
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 24/05/2026Situation 3: devs a and b are pairing with LLMs. They get two agents to implement both X and Y then evaluate the real code instead of arguing in the abstract. 120
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 20/05/2026Fuck. 3 year old family fridge freezer broke at the weekend. $1000 repair, only available in a city 2.5 hours drive away. Now we have a very expensive, increasingly smelly, shiny cupboard in our kitchen. 100
Reposted by Matt Wynnebrianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 13/05/2026whoever takes this job should get the option to remain anonymous because users as a general rule fucking hate design changes and this user base in particular loves to get riled up 24911
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 12/05/2026New post: write.as/mattwynne/do...write.asDon't fear the Dark FactoryA few months ago our boss challenged us to adopt the Dark Factory pattern for agentic software development. Inspired by the work of Justi... 011
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 08/03/2026#AONW was lovely, Portland is lovely, I am spent. And my flight leaves at 6:30am and the clocks are gonna change 😬 020
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 08/03/2026I think I just realised why I’ve been smelling smoke for the past 3-4 weeks wherever I go. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govPhantom smells: a prevalent COVID-19 symptom that progressively sets inOne of the long-term symptoms of COVID-19 is phantosmia, a type of Olfactory Disorder (OD) that has deleterious impacts on patients’ quality of life. The aim of this article was to study how this poorly understood qualitative OD manifests itself in ... 000
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 01/03/2026Last week I discovered pi.dev and I am *hooked*.pi.devpi.devA terminal-based coding agent 221
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 19/02/2026Props @steve-yegge.bsky.social for calling this out steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...steve-yegge.medium.comThe AI VampireThis was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on. 020
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 19/01/2026What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to learn #Rust? 240
Reposted by Matt WynneSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/11/2025If only there had been some warning signs. 112164
Reposted by Matt WynneMichael Fazio @mfazio.dev · 19/11/2025The Pragmatic Bookshelf has 50% right now on almost every title in the store, including mine: pragprog.com/titles/mfjet... Go support great people; authors and company included. Pragmatic is people doing things the right way, reward them for that. Code's save50 media.pragprog.com/newsletters/...media.pragprog.comSave 50% at the Pragmatic Bookshelf 144
Reposted by Matt WynneT Shea @tpshea.eurosky.social · 26/09/2025Canada Post is not a business. It is a public service. It should never be expected to be profitable. 2449
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 22/10/2025Vibe coding is addictive. Steve Yegge calls it out here: steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-... I’ve definitely experienced this myself. Even though I’m practicing TDD, I think the “random factor” of working with a robot brings back that variable-reward dopamine feeling from pre-TDD days. 🫠steve-yegge.medium.comIntroducing Beads: A coding agent memory systemI have been vibe coding like a madman for forty days and forty nights. It’s a long story, so I’ll summarize in these three pictures. 220
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 17/10/2025Is it just me or are the Breakout rooms in Google Meet so bad as to be almost unusable? 210
Reposted by Matt WynneClare Sudbery @claresudbery.bsky.social · 09/10/2025How are you feeling about LLM-augmented coding? Frustrated by the blanket coverage? Skeptical about the benefits? Scared of being left behind? Worried about the negative impact? I hear you, and I’m here to help. >>> 101
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 11/09/2025Hey look @elizayer.bsky.social our paper on the Flourishing with Feminism workshop we ran at #PLOP2024 has just been published: www.plopcon.org/proceedings/...plopcon.org 011
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 14/08/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHuge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activistsAnish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform 010
Reposted by Matt WynneBoris @bmann.ca · 11/08/2025I’m heading to the UK for a week of meetings for @inkandswitch.com We’ll be hosting a social on Sat Aug 16th at the @tldraw.com offices - come join! I’ll have one free day on the 17th before I head to NYClu.maInk & Switch London Social · LumaThe Ink & Switch team is coming through London and we're having a social to share some recent news and research from the lab, and catch up with people in… 1121
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 03/08/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca SolnitTreating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women 020
Reposted by Matt WynneJosh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025When you strip away humanity 514190827990
Matt Wynne @mattwynne.net · 15/07/2025You're absolutely right! It was my mistake to tell you that black is white. Black is in fact cornflake. 000
Reposted by Matt WynneRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/03/2024I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values. Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +ghost.orgGhost: Independent technology for modern publishingBeautiful, modern publishing with newsletters and premium subscriptions built-in. Used by Sky, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more. 14836961710
