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@marick@mstdn.social Sorry for the extremely belated reply, but in https://www.crustofcode.com/arriving-at-properties/ you refer to a problem posed by Hillel Wayne. Do you know anything about the cont...

Open answers to a reader's letter.

C# is a great programming language, but F# is better.

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Mark Seemann is a self-employed programmer and software architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the author of Code That Fits in Your Head and Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patter...

The return of SQL?

I honestly don't know, but I guess we'll find out.

JSON is not a good data-interchange format.

The most popular technology may not be the best.

Would you like help with software design, TDD, code review, process, or programming? If so, I may be able to assist.

Would you like help with software design, TDD, code review, process, or programming? If so, I may be able to assist.

Most of my concerns about AI are probably irrelevant, but what if one of them is not?

Objectivity, meritocracy, high bus factor. What's not to like?

A scenario.

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LLM friendliness does not entail competency.

Which programming language is best suited for LLM-based generation?

Who is liable for code written by LLMs?

A rhetorical poll.

Don't inject third-party dependencies. Use Decorators.

A systems analysis of how AI-assisted development creates a gap between output speed and understanding, and why organizations cannot see it happening.

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Not all software needs to be correct, but a large subset does.

Async and await are notorious for being contagious. Must all interfaces be Task-based, just in case?

A metaphor.

Some thoughts on developer experience.

I work in an environment where people seek opportunities for using AI such as GitHub Copilot to perform daily development tasks.

With some Entity Framework examples in C#.

Get ready for some cryptic infix operators.

Some thoughts on TDD related to integration and systems testing.

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AI-friendly code?

TDD encourages deployment flexibility. Functional programming also helps.

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On epistemological soundness of using LLMs to generate automated tests.

On the tension between encapsulation and testability.

Performance and correctness are two independent concerns with overlapping solutions.

Using Git for CI is not the same as Tactical Git.