Source: YouTube.
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The new US administration has decided to eliminate the “X” option for gender/sex on passports. I have several non-binary friends, and I don’t see why they should have to select an option that makes no sense for them. I also don’t see how an “X” option on identity documents causes a material problem for anyone else. There’s not much I can do to object to this change, but one little thing is to add a comment on the Federal Register for such rule changes. There are three such pages:
DS-11 new passport application: (deadline 3/17/25) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02648/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport
DS-82 passport renewal: (deadline 3/20/25) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/18/2025-02697/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-us-passport-renewal-application-for-eligible
DS-5504 name change or data corrections: (deadline 3/20/25) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/18/2025-02696/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport-for-eligible
It didn’t take me more than a few minutes to make a brief comment (essentially the first three sentences of this post) on all three. Pretty inconsequential compared to the problems facing my non-binary friends.
Source: Martin Fowler.
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While RAG is the most common way to focus a foundation model on material outside its training set, Bharani Subramaniam and I now finish our current batch of patterns by examining our experience with Fine Tuning where we learned to prioritize curating high-quality data.
Source: Martin Fowler.
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Gen AI systems are gullible, and can easily be tricked into responding in ways that are contrary to an enterprise’s policies or leak confidential information. Bharani Subramaniam and I describe how we can counter this by adding guardrails at the boundaries of the request/response flow. We also conclude our discussion of RAG with an overview of how all the RAG component patterns fit together.
Source: Martin Fowler.
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Generative AI and particularly LLMs (Large Language Models) have exploded into the public consciousness. Like many software developers I am intrigued by the possibilities, but unsure what exactly it will mean for our profession in the long run. I have now taken on a role in Thoughtworks to coordinate our work on how this technology will affect software delivery practices. I’m posting various memos here to describe what my colleagues and I are learning and thinking.
I still care about the code (09 July 2025)
Autonomous coding agents: A Codex example (04 June 2025)
Building Custom Tooling with LLMs (14 May 2025) by
Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain (13 May 2025) by
Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM: A Step-by-Step Journey (30 April 2025) by
Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code (17 April 2025) by
The role of developer skills in agentic coding (25 March 2025)
What role does LLM reasoning play for software tasks? (18 February 2025)
Expanding the solution size with multi-file editing (19 November 2024)
Building an AI agent application to migrate a tech stack (20 August 2024)
Onboarding to a ‘legacy’ codebase with the help of AI (15 August 2024)
How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants (29 November 2023)
How is GenAI different from other code generators? (19 September 2023)
TDD with GitHub Copilot (17 August 2023) by
Coding assistants do not replace pair programming (10 August 2023)
In-line assistance – how can it get in the way? (03 August 2023)
In-line assistance – when is it more useful? (01 August 2023)
Median – A tale in three functions (27 July 2023)
The toolchain (26 July 2023)
If you’re wondering why we use a donkey in our series image, read why I made up a persona for an eager, yet unreliable, coding assistant.
Source: Martin Fowler.
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