On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

He said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it

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Mustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".

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Software engineering has never been cool, but the current level of executive excitement in software development process is scary

Meta wants more managers for its AI work

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

After 25 years with TDD, we are now parting ways. The incremental TDD steps were great for human cognition, but didn't survive the transition to agentic coding.

Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems

AI usage patterns in software teams: who is adopting AI, how it reshapes where teams spend their time, and how much more they ship.

Fences, not Sandboxes

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

Code Craft & AI – Zoom, Tue 1 Sep 2026 - Tuesday Sept 1st 18:45 BST £99 + UK VAT Large-scale studies by the DevOps Research & Assessment group, CircleCI, Faros and others show an undeniable pictu...

David Whitney is a technologist, software architect, conference speaker and author based in London. Available for talks and corporate bookings.

London-based civil servants willing to move north have been told they will be offered relocation packages, the BBC understands.

If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?

If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?

Eye-opening changes to the speed and volume of work are not always translating into genuine productivity

Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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